Cognitive Interventions Technologies and Evaluation Research Group (CITE)

Research Overview

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Staff

Dr Amit Lampit - Research Fellow and group co-head

Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs - Senior Research Fellow and group co-head

Dr Anna Wolf - Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ms Julieta Sabates - (research assistant)

Group Affiliates

Dr Harry Hallock - Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Charité)

Ms Mary Castellani - PhD Candidate (La Trobe)

Ms Hanna Malmberg-Gavelin - PhD Candidate (University of Umeå)

Research Opportunities

This research project is available to Honours students to join as part of their thesis.
Please contact the Research Group Leader to discuss your options.

Research Publications

Baker KS, Georgiou-Karistianis N, Lampit A, Valenzuela M, Gibson SJ, Giummarra MJ. (2018). Computerised Training Improves Cognitive Performance in Chronic Pain: A Participant-Blinded Randomised Active-Controlled Trial with Remote Supervision. Pain 159:644-655

Doniger MG, Schnaider-Beeri M, Bahar-Fuchs A, Gottlieb A, Tkachov A, Kenan H, Livny A, Bahat Y, Sharon H, Ben-Gal O, Cohen M, Zeilig G, Plotnik M. (2018). Virtual reality-based cognitive-motor training for middle-aged adults at high Alzheimer's disease risk: A randomized controlled trial. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical InterventionsVol 4, p118-129.

Hill N, Mowszowski L, Naismith S, Chadwick V, Valenzuela M, Lampit A. (2017). Computerized Cognitive Training in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The American Journal of Psychiatry 174:329-340.

Hill N, Mowszowski L, Naismith S, Chadwick V, Valenzuela M, Lampit A. (2017). Computerized Cognitive Training in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The American Journal of Psychiatry 174:329-340.

Bahar-Fuchs A, Webb, S.L., Bartsch, L., Clare, L., Rebok, G., Cherbuin, N., andAnstey, K.J. (2017).Tailored and adaptive computerised cognitive training in older adults at risk of dementia: A randomised controlled trial. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 60(3). DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170404.

Suo C, Fiatarone Singh M, Gates N, Wen W, Sachdev P, Brodaty H, Saigal N, Wilson G, Meiklejohn J, Singh N, Baune B, Baker M, Foroughi N, Wang Y, Mavros Y, Lampit A, Leung I, Valenzuela M. (2016). Therapeutically Relevant Structural and Functional Mechanisms Triggered by Physical and Cognitive Exercise. Molecular Psychiatry 21:1633-1642

Anstey K.J, Bahar-Fuchs A, Herath P, Kim S, Burns R, Rebok G, Cherbuin N. (2015). Body Brain Life: a randomized controlled trial of an online dementia risk reduction intervention in middle-aged adults at risk of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical InterventionsVol. 1, 72-80.

Lampit A, Valenzuela M. (2015). Pointing the FINGER at multimodal dementia prevention. The Lancet386, 1625-6.

Leung I, Walton C, Hallock M, Lewis S, Valenzuela M, Lampit A. (2015). Cognitive training in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurology 85:1843–1851.

Lampit A., Valenzuela M Gates N. (2015). Computerized cognitive training is beneficial for older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 63:2610-2.

Lampit A, Hallock H, Suo C., Naismith S, Brodaty H, Valenzuela M. (2015) Cognitive training-induced short-term functional and long-term structural plastic change is related to gains in global cognition in healthy older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 7:14

Lampit A, Hallock H, Valenzuela M. (2014). Computerized cognitive training in cognitively healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of effect modifiers. PLoS Medicine 11: e1001756

Lampit A, Hallock H, Moss R, Kwok S, Kohn A, Lukjanunko M, Rosser M, Naismith S, Brodaty H, Valenzuela M. (2014). The timecourse of global cognitive gains from supervised computer-assisted cognitive training: A randomised, active-controlled trial in elderly with multiple risk factorsJournal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease 1:33-9

Bahar-Fuchs, A., Woods R.T, Clare, L. (2013). Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 6. Art.No.: CD003260. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003260.

Research Projects

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Faculty Research Themes

Neuroscience

School Research Themes

Cognitive Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience



Key Contact

For further information about this research, please contact Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs

Department / Centre

Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

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