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Kaarin Anstey
Current Appointments
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Research Advisory Council, Professor of Psychology and Director, UNSW Ageing Futures InstituteKey Research Areas
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Kaarin Anstey PhD, FAHMS, FASSA, FRSN, FAPS is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Psychology at UNSW, Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, and conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia.
Anstey conducts research in cognitive aging, resilience, dementia epidemiology and risk reduction, and older driver safety. Anstey is a member of the World Dementia Council, Vice Chair of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health and a member of the World Health Organisation Guideline Development Group for Risk Reduction for Cognitive Decline and Dementia. In 2025 Anstey was awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Excellence in Biological and Medical Science.
Publications
2026 Apr
Predicting cognitive decline: Comparative analysis of ANU-ADRI, CAIDE, CogDrisk, LIBRA, LIBRA2, UKBDRS and Lancet based dementia risk scores in the HUNT study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2026.100524
2026, 28 Jan
Predicting daily fluctuations in multidimensional subjective age among adults aged 19 to 84 years
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254251413126
2026
Modifiable Cognitive Reserve Proxies and Dementia Risk across Socioeconomic Status: Potential Targets for Tailored Intervention in Mid- to Early Late-Life
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6167807
2025 Nov
A critical review and classification of dementia risk assessment tools to inform dementia risk reduction
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100333
2025 Nov
Assessment of dementia risk scores in predicting mild cognitive impairment: A comparison of CogDrisk, CAIDE, LIBRA, and ANU-ADRI
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100324
2025 Nov
Dementia risk prediction: A comparative analysis of the ANU-ADRI, CAIDE, CogDrisk, LIBRA, and LIBRA2 indices in the HUNT study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100326
2025 Sep
Estimating and projecting the population living with dementia at the local area scale in Australia
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-025-09389-8
2025, 25 Jul
Variation in real world dementia risk profiles in 6171 adults drawn from the Australian CogDrisk website according to demographic characteristics
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.24.25332109
2025, 01 Jul
Development of a midlife-specific CogDrisk algorithm (CogDrisk-ML) to enable validated implementation of dementia risk assessment from midlife to late life
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf201
2025 Jul
The Combination of Physical Activity and Cognitive Games is Associated With Better Cognitive Performance and Gray Matter Volume in Older Adults
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.70121
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