ADRF 2024

Theme 1: Discovery (Basic Science/Discovery)
1. The oral and gut microbiome signatures of older Australians with and without dementia and comparisons to international data
Eunice Cheng
2. Modelling CLN3 (Juvenile Batten) Disease in iPSC-derived Neurons Implicates Interrelated Pathways in Protein Homeostasis and Neurite Arborization
Anthony Cook
3. Investigation of Blood-Brain Barrier Transporter Dysfunction in Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease: Insights From Patient IPSC-Derived Models 
Juliana Cristina da Silva Chaves
4. A novel approach to Alzheimer's disease through the gut microbiome
Sithara Dissanayaka
5. Poorer online cognitive performance is associated with genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease and brain phenotypes in healthy mid-life and older adults
Lina Gomez
6. Exploring a Novel Hand-Motor Biomarker Across the Dementia Continuum: Integration and Validation of TAS Test in the ISLAND Cognitive Clinic
Jane Alty
7. Detection of Subtle Cognitive Decline in Pre-Symptomatic Community-Dwelling Older Adults Using Unsupervised Online TAS Test Hand Reaction Time Tests
Jane Alty

Theme 2: Prevention and Diagnosis
8. An AI-Assisted Analysis of Finger Tapping: Investigating Association of Hand Movement with Cognitive Impairment
Jane Alty
9. The link between depression and risk of incident dementia: An Umbrella Review and meta-analysis
Maha Alshahrani
10. Discrepancies in self-administered MIND diet surveys compared to dietitian-administered versions among the AU-ARROW study participants
Malika Fernando
11. Initial Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) for a Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention Study to Reduce Dementia Risk in Healthy Older Adults: The LEISURE Study
Sophie Andrews
12. Development and validation of the CogDrisk Short Form for assessing risk factors for dementia
Kaarin Anstey
13. Implementing dementia risk assessment in Australian adults: real world data from 6241 respondents on the CogDrisk website
Kaarin Anstey
14. The diet quality of participants in the AU-ARROW study based on MIND diet adherence
Carolina Blagojevic Castro
15. Barriers and Enablers to Cognitive Assessment in Parkinson’s Disease: Perspectives of Clinicians and People Living with PD
Deborah Brooks
16. Associations Between Brain Structure and Dual Decline in Gait and Cognition
Michele Callisaya
17. Identification of objective cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’ disease
Rodrigo Canovas
18. Association between Anxiety, Stress, and Cognition in Middle-Aged Adults: Exploratory Factor Analysis across Multiple Anxiety and Stress Measures
Ivana Chan
19. Enhancing utility of neuropsychological evaluation for earlier and effective diagnosis of dementia in Parkinson’s disease: PDCogniCare Project
Nadeeka Dissanayaka
20. What is the prevalence of dementia in Australia?
Annette Dobson
21. "It is a lifestyle…this is it": Drivers of behaviour change towards dementia risk reduction in rural older adults
Laura Dodds
22. Effect of Scanner on beta amyloid quantification in a head-to-head comparison of 18F-NAV4694 Centiloid measurements between Biograph Vision, Gemini and Biograph mCT
Vincent Dore
23. Plasma Ergothioneine levels in cognitively normal individuals with low or high neocortical amyloid
Shaun Eslick
24. The impact of lifetime music experience on hippocampal subfields, prefrontal cortex, and cognitive function in older adults at risk for dementia
Nicole Espinosa
25. The Role of Social Networks in Promoting Dementia Risk Reduction Among Hard-to-Reach Populations
Hannah Fair
26. Best Practice Diagnosis of Cognitive Decline in People with Parkinson’s disease
Daniel Bailey

Theme 3: Post-Diagnostic Care
27. A Mixed Methods Examination of the Impact of Dementia on Occupation Violence in Hospital
Dan Bailey
28. Drawing on Lived Experience to Design a Tailored, Multimodal Sleep Intervention for Dyads of People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers
Aimee Brown
29. Recruiting people with Mild Cognitive Impairment into a falls prevention trial
Elissa Burton
30. Evaluating a novel training course about dementia-friendly eyecare for optometrists
Marianne Coleman
31. Sustainable Personalised Interventions for Cognition, Care, and Engagement (SPICE): Update of a twelve-week multicomponent intervention for people with dementia and care partners
Nathan D'Cunha
32. Learning through Adapting: Reflections on Co-designing Solutions with People Living with Dementia
Catherine Devanny