Cognitive Ageing Journal Club 2008-09

The schedule for the Cognitive Ageing Journal Club for the academic year 2008-09 was:

Semester 1
29th September - Lorna Houlihan
Candidate genes for cognitive impairments: do they influence mental ability and cognitive ageing in a normal population?

6th October - Ian Deary
Smarter in Middle age, Faster in Old Age: A Cross-lagged Panel Analysis of Reaction Time and Cognitive Ability Over 13 Years in the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study.

13th October - Michelle Luciano               (Room B21)                       
C Reactive Protein and Fibrinogen Levels and Cognitive Abilities in the LBC1936.

20th October - Beverly Roberts                 (Room B21)
Reaction time and established risk factors for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.

27th October - Dominika Dykiert
Van Dijk, Ven Gerven, Van Boxtel, Van der Elst, & Jolles (2008). No protective effects of education during normal cognitive aging: Results from the 6-year follow-up of the Maastricht Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 23, 119-130.

3rd November - Dave Liewald                    (Room B21)
Optical mark reading and barcoding.

10th November - Riccardo Marioni
Inflammation and cognition: associations between late-life CRP and fibrinogen levels, their genetic determinants, and cognitive ability.

17th November - Lars Penke                      (Room B21)
Validating the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR) and the National Adult Reading Test (NART) as measures of prior cognitive ability and lifetime cognitive change in the LBC1921 and 1936.

24th November - Louise Brown
The age-related decline in visual working memory.

1st December - Jennifer Ding                     (Room B21)    Postponed


8th December - Caroline Brett
Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings.

15th December - Lorna Houlihan
Feedback from the XV1th World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Osaka, Japan.

Semester 2
12th January - Alan Gow
Papp, K. V., Walsh, S. J., Snyder, P. J. (2009). Immediate and delayed effects of cognitive interventions in healthy elderly: A review of current literature and future directions. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 5, 50-60.

19th January - Robert Fieo
Extending healthy life expectancy.

26th January - No meeting


2nd February - Ross Henderson         (Room B21)
Kennelly, S. P., Lawlor, B. A., Kenny, R. A. (in press). Blood pressure and the risk for dementia-A double edged sword. Ageing Research Reviews.

9th February - Wendy Johnson           (Room B21)
Cognitive and Physical Ageing in LBC1921: Parallel Processes? A Work in Progress.

16th February - No meeting


23rd February - Laura Brown
Assessing (in)attention in elderly patients with delirium.

2nd March - Maria Wolters                     (Room B21)
Accommodating cognitive ageing in spoken dialogue systems.

9th March - Jennifer Ding
Retinal microvascular signs and cognitive abilities in people with type 2 diabetes.

16th March - Edyta Monika Hunter      (Room B21)
Effects of age on multisensory integration and social interaction.

23rd March - Mario Parra                        (Room B21)
Short-term memory binding of features with Gestalt properties: a function that seems to be age-resistant.

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