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Professor Kaarin Anstey

co-Deputy Director

BA(Hons) (Syd), PhD (Qld)

Research and Supervision Interests

My substantive research interests include the epidemiology of cognition and dementia with a focus on identifying lifestyle, brain, and biological risk factors for cognitive decline, and the impact of cognitive ageing on everyday function and driving. I am also interested intra-individual variability as a marker of brain and cognitive impairment, and how meta-cognition influences everyday function in later life. Other research interests focus on the development of wellbeing, depression and suicidality over the lifecourse. Methodological interests include meta-analysis, multilevel modeling, and combining dataset using harmonization. I am also interested in cross-national differences in ageing and health, and how this relates to lifestyle, social and policy differences between countries.

T. +61-2-6125 8410 E. Kaarin.Anstey@anu.edu.au

Selected Publications

Anstey, K. J., Burns, R., Butterworth, P., Windsor, T. D., Christensen, H., & Sachdev, P. (in press). Cardiovascular risk factors and life events as antecedents of depressive symptoms in middle and early-old age: The Path Through Life Study. Psychosomatic Medicine

Ross, L. Anstey, K. J., Kiely, K., Windsor, T. Byles, J., Luszcz, M. A., Mitchell, P. (2009). Older drivers in Australia: Trends on driving status and cognitive and visual impairment. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society PMID: 19694871

Anstey, K. J., Mack, H.A., & Cherbuin, N. (2009). Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for dementia and cognitive decline: A meta-analysis of prospective studies. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17, 542-555

Anstey, K. J., Wood, J., Kerr, G., Caldwell, H., & Lord, S.R. (2009). Different cognitive profiles for single compared to recurrent fallers without dementia. Neuropsychology, 23, 500-508

Anstey, K. J., Byles, J.E., Luszcz, M. A., Mitchell, P., Steel, D, Booth, H., Browning, C. Butterworth, P. Cumming, R. Healy, J., Windsor, T. D., Ross, L. Bartsch, L., Burns, R. A. Kiely, K. Birrell, C.L., Broe, G. A. Shaw, J., Kendig, H. Cohort Profile: The Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) Project, (2009), International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyn276

Cherbuin, N., Réglade-Meslin, C., Kumar, R., Jacomb, P., Easteal, S., Christensen, H., Sachdev, P., & Anstey, K. J. (2009). Risk factors of transition from normal cognition to mild cognitive disorder: The PATH through life study. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, , 28, 47-55.

Low, L-F. & Anstey, K. J. (2009) Dementia literacy: recognition and beliefs on dementia of the Australian public. Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 5, 43-49.

Anstey, K. J., Wood, J., Caldwell, H., Kerr, G., & Lord, S. R. (2009) Comparison of Self-reported crashes, state crash records and an on road driving assessment in a population based sample of drivers aged 69-95 years. Traffic Injury Prevention, 10(1):84-90.

Anstey, K. J., von Sanden, C., Burns, R., & Luszcz, M. A. (2008). Psychological wellbeing is an independent predictor of falling in an 8-year follow-up of older adults, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63:P249-P257.

Anstey, K. J., Mack, H. A., Christensen, H., Li, S-C., Reglade-Meslin, C., Maller, J. J., Kumar, R., Dear, K., Easteal, S., & Sachdev, P. (2007). Corpus callosum size, reaction time speed and variability in mild cognitive disorders and in a normative sample, Neuropsychologia, 45, 1911-1920.