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Healthy Brain Ageing Program

Supporting healthy ageing and reducing the impacts of dementia on people and families.

Tackling one of our biggest health challenges

More than 400,000 Australians live with dementia. With no known cure, we need to better understand the underlying mechanisms driving age-related cognitive decline and dementia.

Lifestyle a critical factor

We know that 30-50% of the risk for developing dementia can be attributed to our lifestyle choices. Using cutting-edge neuroscience techniques, like MRI and EEG, we can now better understand the potential benefit of lifestyle and other factors on brain health.

Research to reduce risk and change lives

We use the latest neurobiological research to:

  1. investigate what happens in the brain during ageing to support people to maximise brain health, and
  2. support people to reduce their risk through lifestyle and behaviour change support.

We seek to reduce the risk of people developing dementia and find new ways to slow the progression of neurodegenerative disease.

Research studies

About us

The Healthy Brain Ageing Clinic research group addresses a previous gap in healthy brain ageing research. We combine cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience with psychology and lifestyle, to gain a more full picture of dementia risk. The team works with the community to maximise healthy ageing and reduce the impacts of dementia on people and families.


Contact the Healthy Brain Ageing Clinic by phone +61 7 5430 1133 or email HBA@usc.edu.au.