"Intervention improvements in apathy were maintained at 3 month follow-up" Stephanie Wong shares her randomised controlled study of behavioural activation therapy for depression and apathy in Parkinson's disease #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

"Behavioural rigidity is associated with a loss of seratonin in behavioural variant FTD" ~ Professor Muireann Irish presents on multidimensional reward processing disturbances in younger-onset dementia #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby Prof Muireann Irish FASSA FRSN

ISTAART Travel Awardee Dr Abraham Varghese presents longitudinal insights from his resercah exploring cognitive stages and neuropsychiatric symptoms جامعة التقنية والعلوم التطبيقية #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

"We've seen a huge improvement in his ADL care"; Dr Monica Cations and Lorraine Ng present their case study on intensive exposure therapy for a person with severe dementia, traumatic stress and neuropsychiatric symptoms Flinders University #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

UNSW AFI Travel Awardee Funmi Akindejoye presents her work on healing gardens in Nigeria and the psychosocial impacts among aged care residents Funmi Akindejoye University of Tasmania #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

"We do know that 60-70% of people with dementia will get lost at least once and 20% will not be found alive" ~ Assoc Prof Margaret MacAndrews talks about the importance of better understanding dementia-related wandering #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby QUT

"Increased longevity often does not equate to years of good quality of life" - ISTAART Awardee Vepakomma Vineela discuses the micronutrient status of Indian elderly with mild cognitive impairment ICMR - National Institute of Nutrition #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

A/Prof Simone Reppermund from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing presents work on late-life depression and olfactory dysfunction as risk factors for dementia #ANSS Simone Reppermund UNSW Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

"Impaired olfaction is an early clinical indication of dementia, occurring a decade or more before cognitive symptoms" ~ A/Prof Simone Reppermund #ANSS Simone Reppermund UNSW Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

UNSW AFI Travel Awardee Dr Samuel Warren presents his work on parsing neuropsychiatric heterogeneity in frontotemporal dementia #ANSS Sam University of Sydney Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

Fleur Harrison discusses her work on apathy, depression and long-term risk of mortality in older adults #ANSS Fleur Harrison 🌈 UNSW Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby

Dr Katya Numbers from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing UNSW Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) talks about the relationships among neuropsychiatric symptoms, subjective cognitive complaints, and cognitive outcomes #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby UNSW

"There's an increased risk of dementia for people living with Parinsons and depression", Dr Dana Pourzinal presents her research on delphi consensus recommendations for cognitive disorders in Parkinson's disease #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby ISTAART UNSW #UQ

Dr Annette Moxey from the Dementia Australia Research Foundation talks about Funding Opportunities and some tips and tricks for writing a strong funding application #ANSS Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA Dr Moyra Mortby UNSW Dementia Australia

It has been an honour to lead the inaugural Australasian Neuropsychiatric Syndromes Symposium in Sydney these past 3 days! A big thank you to all our attendees and speakers for making the event such a success! #ANSS2025 Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA UNSW Ageing Futures Institute NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia)

We are proud to announce that the ISTAART Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Apathy work group paper led by Dr Moyra Mortby et al. will be highlighted at this year's AAGP conference! Read about the paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A big congratulations to Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA member Myuri Ruthirakuhan for being awarded an ISCTM New Investigator Award for her very interesting work on the implementation of biomarker frameworks!

What a fantastic start to ISCTM 2025 in Washington DC today! Fantastic talks on novel regulatory science precedents in Alzheimer's, ALS and Schizophrenia, and stimulating discussions of their implications for neuroscience!

Save the date! We're hosting our first ever Clinical Case Reports Webinar in May 8, 11:30am CT. Learn about a case of mild behavioral impairment with Dylan Guan, Zahinoor Ismail, and Byron Creese! Keep an eye out for the registration link in upcoming ISTAART weekly newsletters.

A huge congratulations to Jennifer Gatchel (she/her), the current Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Chair for being selected as an AAGP Future Leader Fellow for her active participation at the AAGP and for making exemplary contributions to the field of geriatric psychiatry as clinician and researcher!