
Prof Muireann Irish FASSA FRSN
@muireann_irish
@nhmrc Fellow (L1), Director of the Irish Lab @Sydney_Uni @Frontier_Usyd studying memory, motivation, apathy, and anhedonia, in ageing and dementia
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Lovely to be back NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) attending the Australasian Neuropsychiatric Syndromes Symposium. A highlight was hearing Prof Elizabeth Beattie talking about best practice in assessing NPS in residential aged care Sydney Dementia Network “The resident: an individual first”


Such a lovely talk by Funmi Akindejoye Global Brain Health Institute on the use of nature in dementia care settings in Nigeria. Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA Design and Data Analytics PIA #ANSS




🚨New paper!🚨 Out now in Lancet Regional Health: WPR, how do we design clinical trials that capture sociocultural and linguistic diversity and how do we ensure that emerging treatments are accessible to all? Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA Brain & Mind Centre Frontier at Brain & Mind Centre authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…


What a trip so far! Visited and spoke at DRC@UCL and King's College London in London before jetting to Dallas for the Dallas Aging and Cognition meeting. Had the pleasure of being interviewed for the Center for Vital Longevity podcast all about our work on semantic dementia!



Another success for the lab - Siobhan Shaw submitted her thesis yesterday!! 🥳 Siobhán has been exploring profiles of apathy and anhedonia in frontotemporal dementia The AFTD Frontier at Brain & Mind Centre Brain & Mind Centre #FTD


You're Invited to Sydney #Dementia Network Symposium! Rego➡️ bit.ly/SDNSymposium20… Friday 21 March | 12:00 - 5:00 pm [email protected] UNSW Ageing Futures Institute QIMR Berghofer @AnastasiaSuraev Healthy Brain Ageing Program, University of Sydney Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT Lee-Fay Low Sydney Health Sydney Science Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA


🖼️ When words failed, art emerged. After being diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, former judge Dylan Sullivan discovered an unexpected talent for drawing. Her story highlights the brain’s resilience and the power of creativity UCSF MAC UC San Francisco sfchronicle.com/health/article…


New systematic review on the impact of APOE e4 on semantic memory led by Riccardo Sacripante! UEA Psychology UEA Clinical Psychology UEA medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m so thrilled to be the new chair of the Sydney Dementia Network Brain & Mind Centre. Looking forward to working with this wonderful team ✨

🚨New lab paper!🚨 Humans are motivated to seek out social interactions but how do these processes change as we get older? We review social reward processing in aging & frontotemporal dementia with Kristina Horne Leo Cruz da Souza & Lucas de Andrade Saraiva sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
