Projects
- The aetiology and natural history of dementia in young adults.
- Risk factors in the development of early onset dementia.
- The clinical phenomenology of frontotemporal dementia versus Alzheimer's disease.
- Exploration of genetic factors in sporadic Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.
- The epidemiology of early onset dementia in Western Australia.
- The epidemiology of Parkinson's disease in Geraldton and the Mid-West of Western Australia:
- The interaction between the environment and Parkinson's disease
- The Geraldton Midwest Parkinson's Disease project.
- New genes in familial frontotemporal dementia.
- The exploration of immunological genes in Alzheimer's disease and the dementias.
- The development of diagnostic tests, particularly functional molecular imaging such as PET scanning in the differentiation of dementia in young adults.
- Exploration of genetic factors and genomic analysis in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a cause of dementia in adolescents in countries with restricted immunisation, eg India.
- The ethics of the application of genetic Information to the diagnosis of dementing diseases.
- Genotype, phenotype correlations in Prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).
- Juvenile Huntington's disease.
- Cognition in multiple sclerosis.
- Genotype/phenotype correlations in early onset dementia.
- Clinical and neuropathological correlations in early onset dementia.
- The structure and function of genes and proteins involved in dementing diseases.