Sharon Naismith

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Professor Naismith is the Leonard P Ullman Chair in Psychology, based at the Charles Perkins Institute. She is an NHMRC Career Development Fellow and Clinical Neuropsychologist who Heads the Healthy Brain Ageing Program, with clinics at the Brain & Mind Research Institute.

Professor Naismith's research examines mediators of cognitive decline in older adults 'at risk' of dementia. She has a strong track record in the areas of cognitive training, depression and sleep-wake disturbance and how these factors relate to impaired cognition or underlying brain changes. Professor Naismith is a Chief Investigator on grants totalling almost $10 million. She receives funding from the NHMRC, Michael J Fox Foundation, ARC, as well as from Alzheimer's Australia, ANZ Trustees and Parkinson's NSW.

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