Research Project
Dr
Scherazad Kootar
PhD
Current Appointments
Research Fellow
Adjunct Associate lecturer, School of Psychology, UNSW
Associate Investigator, UNSW Ageing Futures Institute
Associate Investigator, CEPAR
Key Research Areas
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Scherazad’s background is in Neurobiology and has completed her PhD in 2017 from the University Cote d’Azur, France studying the relationship between stress and Alzheimer’s disease. Her research at NeuRA focuses on dementia prevention and towards developing risk assessment tools using the latest evidence-base. Scherazad is working towards implementing these tools in community and clinical settings.
Publications
2022, 20 Dec
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COGDRISK DEMENTIA RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL AND INTERACTIVE WEBSITE
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1153837317
2022, 12 Jul
Development of the CogDrisk tool to assess risk factors for dementia.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9275658
2022, 07 Jul
Exercise interventions to reduce anxiety in mid-life and late-life anxiety disorders and subthreshold anxiety disorder: a systematic review.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9272174
2021, 01 Jan
Association Between Anxiety and Cognitive Decline Over 12 Years in a Population-Based Cohort.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-210282
2021, 01 Jan
Dementia Risk Scores and Their Role in the Implementation of Risk Reduction Guidelines.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8764151
2020, 09 Nov
Histone Lysine Demethylase JMJD2D/KDM4D and Family Members Mediate Effects of Chronic Social Defeat Stress on Mouse Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Mood Disorders.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7695311
2019, 21 Jan
How all-type dementia risk factors and modifiable risk interventions may be relevant to the first-generation aging with HIV infection?
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-019-00164-6
2018, 05 Sep
Fellutamide B Synthetic Path Intermediates with in Vitro Neuroactive Function Shows Mood-Elevating Effect in Stress-Induced Zebrafish Model.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6173481
2018, 09 Jul
Identification of an acute functional cross-talk between amyloid-β and glucocorticoid receptors at hippocampal excitatory synapses.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2018.07.001
2018, 01 Jul
Modification in MRI contrast myelogram by instillation of intrathecal preservative-free normal saline to demonstrate CSF spinal leaks.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.4103/0028-3886.237023
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