Leonard P Ullmann (Picasso) Chair, Charles Perkins Centre; Director, Healthy Brain Ageing Program, Brain & Mind Centre, Chief Investigator NHMRC @SIESTASynergy
University of Sydney
Joined August 2016
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Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Important report now available from @AlzDisInt on the importance of #dementia rehabilitation
Today we released of the 2025 World Alzheimer Report. The report explores the important topic of dementia rehabilitation, examining how the concept is defined and implemented, and how to best adapt rehabilitation practices. alzint.org/resource/world-al…
#WorldAlzReport
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
🎶🧠 New in GeroScience – Open 🔓Access!
The associations between playing a musical instrument and grey matter in older adults at risk for dementia: a whole-brain VBM analysis by Nicole Espinosa & Sharon L. Naismith (@Prof_Naismith) et al.
Findings suggest that playing a musical instrument may be linked to preserved grey matter volume in key brain regions, offering potential protective effects against dementia risk.
🔓 Read the full article here: rdcu.be/eHuUe
#dementia #aging #brainhealth #musictherapy #cognitivereserve #GeroScience
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
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Are you experiencing nightmares? Don’t ignore them — they could be isolated REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, the first sign of Parkinson's Disease! We are currently recruiting for a trial to see if we can change your future:
bit.ly/PDRC_Trials
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
What a week at #AAIC25! Grateful to be an #ISTAART ambassador, witness the powerful #SLEEPPIA panel, & see @Prof_Naismith spotlight sleep in dementia research—w/ a shoutout to my melatonin trial! Thanks, #ISTAART! 🎉 Watch the wrap video below:
Thank you to the more than 11,700 researchers, clinicians and dementia professionals who joined us in Toronto and online for #AAIC25!
Together, you advanced science and clinical practice and have given hope to all those living with Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Great presentation today at the AAIC2025 Sensory Abnormalities in Dementia Featured Research Session by amazing @AlexBaharFuchs on Olfactory Impairment in Dementia 👏👏
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Wonderful plenary session today at #AAIC25 with @Prof_Naismith on the importance of sleep in #dementia
Today’s #AAIC25 plenary session will start at 11 a.m. in Hall ABC. Attendees, don’t miss your chance to hear from
🟣 @Prof_Naismith, Professor, Leonard P Ullman Chair in Psychology, Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney
🟣 Katrin Andreasson, M.D., Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Dr Elie Matar on Sleep Complaints. Sleep disorders are common in dementia & neurodegeneration which is important with evidence of higher rates of apathy, aggression & caregiver burden, while lowering functional status, quality of life & cognitive performance. @DrElieMatar
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
@Prof_Naismith is up to educate us about how sleep is a risk for dementia with 50% of older adults have chronic sleep complaints. Functions of sleep has links with our cardiovascular disease, neurogenesis and in synaptic strength. #ADRF2025
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
So honoured to have been invited to present for the Basic Science Symposium at #ADRF2025 this year held in Perth🔬🧠
Thank you so much to my supervisors @Prof_Naismith @ShawnKong11 & Joe Michaelian for all the support 😊
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Cognitive fluctuations are found in 90% of patients with DLB - marked by variation in cognition, changes in alertness and arousal, no objective biomarkers and dysfunction can occur in multiple networks over multiple time scales. #ADRF2025
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
A quick panel discussion before lunch on Day 1 of #ADRF2025. Great to see our expert panelists and the various work of ADNeT garner lots of interesting Q&A’s!
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Our 3rd Lifetime Achievement Awards winner is Prof Constance Dimity Pond- a clinician- researcher, Prof Pond has been a pioneering figure in strengthening dementia diagnosis and care with general practice and primary care. 🎉#ADRF2025
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Next up we have @ADNeT_Australia Integrated Intiatives Shaping the Future of Dementia Diagnosis and Care. Prof Sharon Naismith explains the impact of hybrid virtual memory clinics in Aus to help provide multidisciplinary services to regional areas. @Prof_Naismith #ADRF2025
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
📢 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
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
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
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Interested in how sleep and brainstem dysfunction interact in Alzheimer’s? 😴🧠 Don’t miss this Conference! In-person & online. Register now! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 @SleepPIA @NSS_PIA @HeidiJacobsLab @NinaEngels
@ISTAART
@NSS_PIA @SleepPIA
ABSTRACT submission by Apr-15. The integrative NSS 2025 meeting: Intersection with Sleep
Program: education.martinos.org/inss2…
Registration (available without abstract): education.martinos.org/inss2…
Keynote speakers: @grinberg_t @NedergaardLab
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
New trials to combat Parkinson’s disease 9news.com.au/national/new-tr…
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
📢 New Preprint out now!
International recommendations for sleep and circadian research in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: a Delphi consensus study 👇
🔗 lnkd.in/e8T5Mbvc
@ISTAART @Prof_Naismith @claire_c_andre @Laura_Sofia_S @Antonsdottir_RN @LizCoulthard @YueLengsleep
Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA retweeted
Australians are travelling overseas for dementia treatments like lecanemab after TGA rejection. ADNeT urges approval so that the 433k Australians living with dementia can access the latest treatments at home. #DementiaTreatment #ADNeT @AlzDisInt
We are running a mini campaign to highlight how access to new treatments for #alzheimers is forcing people - those who can afford it- to travel for them. Below -in the replies- quotes from medical professionals and people travelling - if you have a story please share it with us
