Associate Professor Sharon Naismith
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Director, Clinical Research Unit, Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist
M02 - Mallet Street Campus |
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Biographical details
Associate Professor Naismith is the Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the Brain & Mind Research Institute. She is a Clinical Neuropsychologist who also Heads the Healthy Brain Ageing Clinic. Associate Professor Naismith is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Clinical Neuropsychologists. She is also the Postgraduate Coordinator for the Master of Brain and Mind Sciences at the Brain & Mind Research Institute. She provides supervision to postgraduate research and clinical students.
Research interests
Associate Professor Naismith is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and her research interests are in late-life neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders particularly Parkinson's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment and late-life depression. Her work incorporates multiple facets of these disorders including sleep-wake disturbance, cognition, neuroimaging and genetics. She is also pioneering a Healthy Brain Ageing Cognitive Training for older people is interested in testing early intervention paradigms for older people at risk of dementia.
Current national competitive grants*
2011
Mediators of cognitive decline and neuroplasticity in older people with depression and early neurodegenerative disease
Naismith S
NHMRC Career Development Award ($384,160 over 4 years)
2010
The impact of circadian disturbances on sleep quality, cognition and psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease
Lewis S, Naismith S, Rogers N, Hodges J
NHMRC Project Grant ($479,000 over 3 years)
2009
SR: A RCT of a web-based ontervention to improve depresssion, cognitve function and adherence in people with CVD
Hickie I, Glozier N, Naismith S, Neal B
National Heart Foundation of Australia Cardiovascular Disease and Depression Strategic Research Program ($594,198 over 2 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney