Autumn Term 2011
19th September: Peter Visscher
'Opportunities to learn more from GWAS data'
26th September: Nat Royle
'Exploring associations between atrophy and cognition in the LBC 1936'
3rd October: Jack Nissan
‘Medspot - a new test of health literacy.’
10th October: Donald Lyall
Presented a paper: Glascher et al., (2010) Distributed neural system for general
intelligence revealed by lesion mapping. PNAS, 107(10); 4705-4709.
17th October: No talk
24th October: Alan Gow
‘Examining the effect of activities on cognitive ageing from age 50 up to 85: the
Glostrup 1914 Cohort’.
31st October: Michelle Luciano
7th November: Martha Whiteman
14th November: Sophie von Stumm
21st November: Wendy Johnson and Rene Mottus
‘Health literacy and health outcomes’.
28th November: Andrew McIntosh
White matter, neuroticism and depressive symptoms in LBC1936
5th December: Mario Parra
‘When is working memory binding an age-insensitive process?’
12th December: Gail Davies
19th December: Catherine Murray
‘Cognition and Mortality in the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1921’
Term Two
16th January: No talk
23rd January: No talk
30th January: Caroline Brett
‘Six day sample’
6th February: Mario Parra
‘When is working memory binding an age-insensitive process?’
13th February: Dominika Dykiert
‘Perceived age and mortality in LBC 1921’
20th February: Tim Bates
‘The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom
heritability’
27th February: Simon Cox
‘Neural and cognitive correlates of cortisol levels in a sub-sample of the
LBC1936’
5th March: Ramani Sundaram
‘Research at the Nightingale's Centre for Ageing and Alzheimer's, Bangalore,
India’