📢 New preprint alert Our study supports using plasma pTau181 to boost diagnostic confidence in Alzheimer’s across Australian Memory Clinics—moving closer to routine blood testing! 🔗Read more: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT

Our 3rd Lifetime Achievement Awards winner is Prof Constance Dimity Pond- a clinician- researcher, Prof Pond has been a pioneering figure in strengthening dementia diagnosis and care with general practice and primary care. 🎉#ADRF2025

Next up we have Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT Integrated Intiatives Shaping the Future of Dementia Diagnosis and Care. Prof Sharon Naismith explains the impact of hybrid virtual memory clinics in Aus to help provide multidisciplinary services to regional areas. Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA #ADRF2025

Superb talk by our very own Johannes Michaelian on the management impact of blood based biomarkers in 3 memory clinics at #ADRF2025 Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT Healthy Brain Ageing Program, University of Sydney Prof Jane Alty Rowe Lab

See you at poster 10 to learn about all things #NeuroMusic! 🧠 🎵 #ADRF25 Healthy Brain Ageing Program, University of Sydney

A quick panel discussion before lunch on Day 1 of #ADRF2025. Great to see our expert panelists and the various work of ADNeT garner lots of interesting Q&A’s!

Cognitive fluctuations are found in 90% of patients with DLB - marked by variation in cognition, changes in alertness and arousal, no objective biomarkers and dysfunction can occur in multiple networks over multiple time scales. #ADRF2025

So honoured to have been invited to present for the Basic Science Symposium at #ADRF2025 this year held in Perth🔬🧠 Thank you so much to my supervisors Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA Shawn Kong & Joe Michaelian for all the support 😊

You were awesome Rachael! Well done!

Dr Elie Matar on Sleep Complaints. Sleep disorders are common in dementia & neurodegeneration which is important with evidence of higher rates of apathy, aggression & caregiver burden, while lowering functional status, quality of life & cognitive performance. Elie Matar

Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA is up to educate us about how sleep is a risk for dementia with 50% of older adults have chronic sleep complaints. Functions of sleep has links with our cardiovascular disease, neurogenesis and in synaptic strength. #ADRF2025

Proud to receive the Australian Dementia Network - ADNeT Mid-Career Award presented by Ralph Martins at the closing of #ADRF2025! 🥂🎉 A shout out & thanks to my team Healthy Brain Ageing Program, University of Sydney, Ian Hickie Brain & Mind Centre USYD Psychology Sydney Science Charles Perkins Centre.

A whole issue on sleep, clocks and dementia! Delighted to be a guest editor! Calling for submissions! ISTAART SIESTA Research Program Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Great presentation today at the AAIC2025 Sensory Abnormalities in Dementia Featured Research Session by amazing ⁦⁦Alex Bahar-Fuchs⁩ on Olfactory Impairment in Dementia 👏👏

Wonderful plenary session today at #AAIC25 with Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA on the importance of sleep in #dementia

Thanks so much Hamid! Good to see you from afar!

What a week at #AAIC25! Grateful to be an #ISTAART ambassador, witness the powerful #SLEEPPIA panel, & see Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA spotlight sleep in dementia research—w/ a shoutout to my melatonin trial! Thanks, #ISTAART! 🎉 Watch the wrap video below:

smh.com.au/lifestyle/heal… Are you experiencing nightmares? Don’t ignore them — they could be isolated REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, the first sign of Parkinson's Disease! We are currently recruiting for a trial to see if we can change your future: bit.ly/PDRC_Trials

Important report now available from ADI on the importance of #dementia rehabilitation

🎶🧠 New in GeroScience – Open 🔓Access! The associations between playing a musical instrument and grey matter in older adults at risk for dementia: a whole-brain VBM analysis by Nicole Espinosa & Sharon L. Naismith (Sharon Naismith, AM, FASSA) et al. Findings suggest that playing a