It is well known that exercise has a positive influence on cognitive function during aging. However, the optimal dose, intensity and duration of exercise for improving cognitive function is not known, nor are the mechanisms by which exercise may prevent or even reverse cognitive decline.
How much is enough? How much is too little? Healthy men and women aged 65—85 are invited to participate in a six-month supervised exercise program. Participation will include fitness tests, cognitive function testing, MRI scans of the brain, and small blood samples.
Participants will be divided into three groups to complete either low-intensity very easy , moderate-intensity easy exercise or aerobic-interval hard exercise three times per week for six months. All exercise will be supervised and monitored and we will measure cognitive function, fitness, blood hormones, genetic factors and brain volume before beginning exercise, at regular interval during the exercise program and six months following the conclusion of the exercise program.
Contact the Healthy Brain-Ageing Team healthybrains uq. Expression of Interest form. Our aim is to collect information about adults and children who have been diagnosed with agenesis or dysgenesis of the corpus callosum ACC. Malformations of the corpus callosum are relatively rare and most studies so far have involved smaller groups of people.
In this study we aim to survey the Australian population of ACC patients to assess the range of disorders associated with callosal malformations in Australia. If you or your child has been diagnosed with agenesis or dysgenesis of the corpus callosum we invite you to contact us and take part in this study.
Any copies of documentation such as digital copies of MRI scans would be very much appreciated. No active participation in any further research is needed at this stage. In the questionnaire you will have the option to indicate if you wish to be informed of further studies. At any given time you have the right to retract your participation and remove your information from the database.
What changes occur in the brain during the critical period of early adolescence? Would your family like to take part in our journey to explore this very important period of development? Our team is using advanced imaging techniques to see inside the brain and to track developmental changes through early and mid-adolescence in a large sample of twins from Brisbane and South-East Queensland. Concurrently, we are assessing cognition, social behaviour, and mental health, as well as collecting blood and saliva samples.
This will provide vital new knowledge of the structural and functional changes in the adolescent brain — how the healthy teenage brain develops, and to help us understand how developmental processes in the brain may go awry during adolescence. This study will help to explain why adolescence is not an equally vulnerable period for all individuals. This is a longitudinal study. We hope you will be able to visit us on three occasions over 3 to 5 years so that we can track developmental changes in your brain.
You will receive an honorarium to cover travel expenses and for participation in all aspects of the study. We are looking to establish a quantitative assessment of the symptoms associated with different types of movement disorders.
We will collect data from patients with a history of any movement disorder and also from the age matched healthy controls 35 — 75 years. Better understanding is needed into the nature and cause of movement disorders in order to identify the pathway of the disease progression. This in-depth study will ultimately help in better and more timely treatments to improve the quality of life of people with movement disorders.
The session may take around and 1. You will be required to perform some simple movement tasks and voice and handwriting samples will also be taken. An experienced researcher will be present at all times to guide your through these assessments. If you are in Brisbane and are interested in contributing towards the research then please contact the following person:.
Part of this involves developing better tests of memory, language and thinking abilities. In order to develop new tests and interpret performance of people with dementia, we also need the help of healthy people. This is where we need your help! Please submit any ethics enquiries to the lead researcher listed with the project, and any general enquiries to humanethics research.
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