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Project Outline: Novel Subjective Measure: We recently developed an internationally validated tool to measure a subclinical, reversible stage of pre-chronic health that we coined the 'Suboptimal Health Status' (SHS), which is a physical state between health and disease characterised by 1) the...
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Project Outline: The proposed project will explore the way in which families with young children access and engage in digital media in their everyday lives. Although there is a growing body of research about the use and impact of technology in home learning environments and pre-schools, very...
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Project Outline: Australian university students have encountered unique challenges in the wake of crises such as bushfires and COVID-19. Globally pre-2020, one in five university students experienced poor wellbeing. In Australia, youth age 15-24 have the highest prevalence of psychological...
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Project Outline: As we age, we progressively lose bone, while it accumulates in in our blood vessels, driving the risk for cardiovascular disease. Postmenopausal women experience rapid loss of bone following the menopausal transition, accompanied by rapid accumulation of calcium in the vessels –...
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Project Outline: Background: Informal carers are a significantly disadvantaged group within the population. Carers are at increased risk of poor health, with the role associated with a higher mortality rate than non-caring counterparts. Caring can lead to multiple psychological changes, such as...
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Project Outline: Despite knowledge of the importance of fruits and vegetables in the diet, only 5.4% of Australian adults meet the recommended guidelines for daily serves of fruit and vegetables. Current dietary guidelines recommend a high intake of all fruits and vegetables however, studies...
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Project Outline: Proper function of the nervous system is vital to allow muscles to contract. Indeed, exercise training results in improved muscle performance. Conversely, with de-training or ageing the loss of strength can result in poor health and physical function. However, the specific...
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Project Outline: Neurofilament light chain protein (NFL) levels in plasma and CSF have been reported to be increased in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurological diseases, making it a generic marker for neurodegeneration. AD is a highly complex and heterogenous disorder and thus a single...
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Project Outline: Measuring and predicting rates of cognitive decline and the rate of accumulation of the pathognomonic features in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are fundamental to understanding the origins of the disease. It is also essential for the implementation of more efficient clinical trials...
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Project Outline: The glycome is the entire complement of sugars, whether free or present in more complex molecules, of an organism. An alternative definition is the entirety of carbohydrates in a cell. The glycome may in fact be one of the most complex entities in nature. Glycosylation, the...