Broe Group publications

2006-2011 Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing Grant. Dementia Collaborative Research Centre. H Brodaty, P Sachdev, GA Broe, B Draper as Chief Investigators

2006-2011 NHMRC/ARC Ageing Well Ageing Productively Research Program. Gene-environment interaction in healthy brain ageing and age related neurodegeneration. P Sachdev, GA Broe, N Martin, P Schofield, H Brodaty as Chief Investigators

2006-2011 NHMRC/ARC Ageing Well Ageing Productively Research Program. Using health outcome data from pooled Longitudinal Studies of Ageing to develop statistical and microsimulation models to determine how to best compress morbidity and optimise healthy and product K Anstey, J Byles, A Harding, M Luszcz, GA Broe as Chief Investigators

Henderson S, Broe GA. (2010). Dementia in Aboriginal Australians Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 44:869-871.

In this article the authors discuss recent research into the prevalence of dementia in remote Aboriginal populations and outline current thinking about probable risk factors and protective factors.

2005-2010 ARC/NHMRC. Ageing Well Ageing Productively Network. GA Broe as sole Chief Investigator

2005-2010 University of New South Wales. Ageing Well Ageing Productively Network GA Broe as sole Chief Investigator

2007-2010 What is the burden of dementia in urban dwelling Indigenous Australians? GA Broe, L Jackson Pulver, C Chalkley, D Grayson as Chief Investigators

Arkles RS, Jackson Pulver LR, Robertson H, Draper B, Chalkley S and Broe GA. Ageing, Cognition and Dementia in Australian and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: A Life Cycle Approach. Neuroscience Research Australia and Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, University of New South Wales. June 2010.

This report is a review of the literature to-date on dementia in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

Anstey KJ, Byles JE, Luszcz MA, Broe GA et al.. (2009). Cohort profile: The Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Ageing (DYNOPTA) Project Int. J. Epidemiol Advance Access published January 17

Like other industrialized countries, Australia is facing major population ageing.

Piguet O, Halliday GM, Creasey H, Broe GA, Kril J. (2009). Frontotemporal dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies in a case-control study of Alzheimer’s disease Int Psychogeriatr 21:4:688-695.

The clinical presentations in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) overlap considerably with that of Alzheimer's disease (AD) despite different pathological processes.

Bennett H , Broe GA. (2009). The neurobiology of judicial decision-making: Indigenous Australians, native title and the Australian High Court. Public Law Review 20:112-128.

This article reviews the scientific literature on the neurobiology of decision-making with particular emphasis on the role of emotion and how the processing of emotional information relates to decisio

Bennett H, Broe GA. (2008). Brains, biology and socio-economic disadvantage in sentencing: Implications for the politics of “moral culpability.” The Crim L J 32:167-179.

Travers C, McDonnell G, Broe, GA, Anderson P, et al.. (2008). The Acute-Aged Care Interface: Exploring the Dynamics of “Bed Blocking.” Australas J Ageing 27: 3:116-120.

Karlstrom H, Brooks WS, Kwok JBJ, Broe GA, et al. (2008). Variable phenotype of Alzheimer’s disease with spastic paraparesis (Review) J of Neurochem 104:573-583.

Behnke S, Double K, Duma S, Broe GA, Guenther V, Becker G, Halliday G. (2007). Substantia nigra echomorphology in the healthy very old: correlation with motor slowing. Neuroimage 34,3:1054-9.

Emre M, Aarsland D, Brown R, Burn DJ, Duyckaerts C, Mizuno Y, Broe GA, Cummings J, Dickson DW, Gauthier S, Goldman J, Goetz C, Korczyn A, Lees A, Levy R, Litvan I, McKeith I, Olanow W, Poewe W, Quinn N, Sampaio C, Tolosa E, Dubois B. (2007). Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders 22(12):1689-707.

Anstey KJ, Butterworth P, Windsor TD, Burns R, Sargent-Cox K, von Sanden C, Christensen H, Booth H, Simons LA, Byles JE, Gibson R, Luszcz MA, Shaw JE, Broe GA, Browning C, Mitchell P, Cumming R G, Kendig H. (2007). The value of comparing health outcomes in cohort studies: An example of self-rated health in seven studies including 79 653 participants. Australasian Journal on Ageing 16:2314-2324.

Dubois B, Burn D, Goetz C, Aarsland D, Brown RG, Broe GA, Dickson D, Duyckaerts C, Cummings J, Gauthier S, Korczyn A, Lees A, Levy R, Litvan I, Mizuno Y, McKeith IG, Olanow CW, Poewe W, Sampaio C, Tolosa E, Emre M. (2007). Diagnostic procedures for Parkinson's disease dementia: Recommendations from the Movement Disorder Society Task Force 16:2314-2324.

Bennett H, Piguet O, Grayson D, Creasey H, Waite L, Lye T, Corbett A, Hayes M, Broe GA, Halliday G. (2006). Cognitive, Extrapyramidal and other MRI predictors of functional impairment in non-demented older community dwellers: The Sydney Older Person Study. JAGS 54:3-10.

Gray L, Broe GA, Duckett S, Gibson D, Travers C, McDonnell G. (2006). Developing a Policy Simulator at the Acute-Care Interface. Australian Health Review 30:450-457.

Piguet O, Cramsie J, Bennett HP, Kril JJ, Corbett A, Hayes M, Creasey H, Broe GA. (2006). Contributions of Age and Alcohol Consumption to Cerebellar Integrity, Gait and Cognition in non-Demented Very Old Individuals. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 256:504-511.

Piguet O, Bennett H, Waite L, Kril J, Creasey H, Broe GA, Halliday GM. (2006). Preserved cognition and functional independence after a large right posterior cerebral artery infarct: longitudinal, clinical and neuropathological findings. Neurocase 12:81-90.

Waite, LM, Grayson DA, Piguet O, Creasey H, Bennett HP, Broe GA. (2005). Gait slowing as predictor of incident dementia: 6 year longitudinal data from the Sydney Older Persons Study. Journal of Neurological Science Vol No 229-230:89-93.

Broe GA, Duma SR, Halliday GM, Waite LM. (2005). Extrapyramidal gait slowing predicts incident dementia in the Sydney Older Persons Study: Where is the brain lesion in motor slowing? Movement Disorders Vol 20 Suppl 10:115-116.

Tate RL, Broe GA, Cameron ID, Hodgkinson AE, Soo CA. (2005). Pre-injury, injury and early post-injury predictors of long-term functional and psychosocial recovery after severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment 6(2):75-89.

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