We can hardly express our thankfulness to all of our guests for their invaluable collaboration
Dementia and driving cessation (Professor Nathan Herrmann, September 2006): Nathan Herrmann is Head of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Canada. He's also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His major contributions to neuroscience research are in the areas of the clinical pharmacology of dementia (treatment of behavioural disturbances and cognition), post-stroke depression, and the pharmacotherapy of late-life affective disorders. He has just published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal a 3-year study on driving cessation for patients with mild-to-moderate dementia, and has kindly accepted an interview on this topic.
Dementia and nutrition (Doctor Martha Clare Morris, May 2005): Martha Clare Morris is an Associate Professor at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. She is the organizing chairperson of the International Academy of Nutrition and Aging 2006 Symposium on Nutrition and Alzheimer's Disease/Cognitive Decline, Chicago, USA. Doctor Morris is one of the pioneers in research on dietary risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitive change with aging. She has published findings on the relation of antioxidant nutrients, dietary fats, and the B-vitamins to these conditions.
Mixed dementia (Doctor Kenneth Langa, April 2005): Kenneth Langa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan (UM), an Investigator at the Veterans Affairs Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, and a Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research. He is currently the Co-Director of the UM SGIM (Society for General Internal Medicine)-Hartford Collaborative Center for Research and Education in the Care of Older Adults and the UM Patient Safety Enhancement Program. His current research focuses on estimating the societal costs of chronic disease among older adults, with a focus on Alzheimer's Disease, dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
Dementia with Lewy bodies (Professor Ian McKeith, November 2004): Ian McKeith is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH), Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Previously Course Director for the Newcastle Undergraduate Psychiatry module (1989-2000), he currently teaches old age psychiatry to medical students on clinical placement and to postraduate trainees in psychiatry, and supervises research students and staff. He has kindly accepted an interview on Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), a frequent -and often underdiagnosed- type of dementia he is very familiar with. Since the early 90's, he has pioneered the research to
gain an understanding of DLB, and to
identify it as a separate and distinct disease.
Cholinesterase inhibitors switching (Professor Serge Gauthier, January 2004): Professor Serge Gauthier is Senior Scientist of the Medical Research Council/Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada Health Program. Professor of the Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at the McGill University, he was Director of the McGill Centre for Studies in Aging, from 1986 to 1997. His research interests include etiology and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the development of consensus guidelines on approval and use of antidementia drugs, and on the rights of persons with dementia to participate in research.
Cognitive reserve (Professor Yaakov Stern, September 2003): Yaakov Stern is the Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division
of the Sergievsky
Center and the Taub
Institute. He's also Professor
of Clinical Neuropsychology in Neurology and Psychiatry
(in the Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute) at the Columbia
University in the city of New York. His research spans several domains
on which he is a world-wide respected and renowned investigator,
such as heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease, Implicit
recall in normal aging and Cognitive Reserve, the latter
being probably the topic on which he is more widely known.
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