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Kaarin Anstey
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Senior Principal Research ScientistKey Research Areas
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Kaarin Anstey is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor at UNSW, and a Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA. She is Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute, leads an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cognitive Health, is a director of the NHMRC Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration and Co-Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research. Kaarin conducts public health research into dementia risk reduction ranging from analysis of cohort studies, development of risk assessment tools, and conducting risk reduction trials. A second focus is on older driver risk assessment and safety. Kaarin leads the PATH Through Life Project, a large cohort study focusing on common mental disorders and cognitive function. She chairs the International Research Network on Dementia Prevention and is a member of the Governance Committee of the Global Council on Brain Health, an initiative supported by the American Association of Retired Persons.
Publications
2025 May
Virtual reality obstacle avoidance training can be enhanced by physical feedback via perturbations: A proof-of-concept study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104442
2024, 14 Dec
Impact of Childhood Adversity on Late-Life Cognition in Older Puerto Rican Adults
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae199
2024 Dec
Estimating the rates of dementia using administrative data linked to cohort studies
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/13872877241291139
2024, 13 Nov
Gender Selectively Mediates the Association Between Sex and Memory in Cognitively Normal Older Adults
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae094
2024, 01 Nov
Development and Validation of the Perceived Interpersonal Relevancy Scales: A New Measure of Perceived Threat, Opportunity, and Invisibility Appraisals for Use Across the Adult Life Course
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae162
2024, 09 Oct
Ageing and Decision-making: A systematic review and meta-analysis
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.09.24315136
2024 Oct
Associations between depression and anxiety in midlife and dementia more than 30 years later: The HUNT Study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.70036
2024 Oct
Impact of type 2 diabetes and its duration on incidence rates of dementia death and medication prescription in the Australian population during 2003–2016
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2024.111795
2024, 30 Sep
Total physical activity matters for brain health
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00712-1
2024 Aug
Evaluation of the effectiveness of three different interventions on older driver safety over a 12-month period: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087137
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