Celebrating our students at the #BMCSymposium2025 Our talented team presented their research. We’re so proud of their hard work. Special congrats to Yansen Wang, winner of the Best Poster Award (Master’s category)! 🏆 Thanks to @BrainMind_Usyd for an inspiring event!

🎉 Big week of celebrations at the HBA Clinic! 👏 Ally submitted her PhD, 🎓 @Nicoleez91 PhD was approved, and Charlotte & Nick completed their Honours! 💛 We also farewelled Lucy, our amazing NeuroMusic Trial neuropsychologist. We couldn’t be prouder of our HBA team 💫

🧠💜 World Alzheimer’s Month This Thursday our team is in the community sharing evidence-based strategies for healthy brain ageing & dementia prevention. 📍 9:30am Woodstock Community Centre 📍 11:30am Petersham RSL Join us to learn, connect & take action for brain health!

🌍💤 Our team shared new research at #WorldSleep2025 showing how sleep and its neurobiological markers reveal vital insights into ageing and dementia risk. 👏 Proud of our presenters for advancing the science on the global stage! @ShawnKong11

We are delighted to welcome Peta Kazantzis as our new Clinic Coordinator. 🎉 Peta will help streamline clinic operations, support our team and participants, and keep our services running smoothly. Please join us in welcoming Peta to the team!

We’re thrilled to have @Nicoleez91 continuing with us in her new role as Postdoctoral Research Associate! Nicole brings strong expertise in RCTs, neuroimaging, and a deep commitment to prevention in dementia care. We’re excited to see the impact of her work in this next chapter

Last week, our team— Prof Lee-Fay Low, @Prof_Naismith , Dr Catriona Ireland & Dr Simone Simonetti—consulted with 23 clinicians 💬 & 5 dementia advocates 🤝 in Orange, NSW📍to localise the Virtual Memory Clinic model for better early diagnosis & dementia care.

Thrilled to see our PhDs & postdocs shine on Day 1 of #ADRF2025! 💡 They presented posters & talks on sleep, blood biomarkers, gender differences, and non-pharmacological interventions to support brain health in older adults at risk for dementia 🧠👏 @zoemschrire @Prof_Naismith

📢 New preprint alert Our study supports using plasma pTau181 to boost diagnostic confidence in Alzheimer’s across Australian Memory Clinics—moving closer to routine blood testing! 🔗Read more: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @Prof_Naismith @ADNeT_Australia

Transforming Sleep-Dependent Memory Assessment 💤 Our latest study, led by Dr @SleepyAaronLam is out in JMIR Aging! We co-developed the ‘SleepMemories’ mobile app with older adults to digitalise sleep-dependent memory tasks. Read more: doi: 10.2196/68147 @Prof_Naismith