Fellowship Call for 2019
October 12, 2018ICAT One Health Study Day Registration
February 29, 2024Full NameProfessor Emer McGrath
Medicine
National University of Ireland Galway
Webpage:universityofgalway.ie
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Research Fields
- neuroscience and mental health
- epidemiology/population health research
Postgrad Medical Specialties
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Public Health
Medical Subspecialties
- Dementia
- Neurology
- Neuropsychiatry
My Work
Professor McGrath's research work focuses on clinical epidemiology of neurovascular cognitive disorders (stroke, mild cognitive impairment and dementia), blood biomarkers for dementia and preclinical dementia, dementia risk prediction, clinical trials in neuroscience, particularly in neurodegenerative disease and reproductive and sex-specific risk factors for dementia.
Potential Projects
Identifying blood biomarkers for cognitive impairment and dementia
Predicting dementia at pre-clinical stages
Sex specific risk factors for dementia, eg reproductive factors
Vascular risk factors for dementia