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.