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Nicole A. Kochan is a researcher affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their academic work primarily focuses on topics related to medicine, with a significant emphasis on psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research contributions have been concentrated in areas such as dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, frailty in older adults, health disparities and outcomes, health, environment and cognitive aging, nutritional studies and diet, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Nicole A. Kochan has published extensively in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • NeuroImage
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Nicole A. Kochan include:

  • "A comparison of machine learning methods for survival analysis of high-dimensional clinical data for dementia prediction," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Metformin Use Is Associated With Slowed Cognitive Decline and Reduced Incident Dementia in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study," 2020, Diabetes Care
  • "Estimating prevalence of subjective cognitive decline in and across international cohort studies of aging: a COSMIC study," 2020, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Hippocampal plasticity underpins long-term cognitive gains from resistance exercise in MCI," 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Association of Dilated Perivascular Spaces With Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia," 2021, Neurology

The researcher frequently collaborates with others including Perminder S. Sachdev, Henry Brodaty, Katya Numbers, John D. Crawford, and Wei Wen, reflecting active partnerships in the field.

Best Publications

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (N=53 949)

    G. Davies;N. Armstrong;J. C. Bis;J. Bressler

  • The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study (MAS): methodology and baseline medical and neuropsychiatric characteristics of an elderly epidemiological non-demented cohort of Australians aged 70-90 years.

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Henry Brodaty;Simone Reppermund;Nicole A. Kochan

  • A Multifactorial Approach to Understanding Fall Risk in Older People

    Kim Delbaere;Jacqueline C.T. Close;Jacqueline C.T. Close;Jörg Heim;Perminder S. Sachdev

  • Subjective cognitive decline and rates of incident Alzheimer's disease and non–Alzheimer's disease dementia

    Rosalinde E.R. Slot;Sietske A.M. Sikkes;Johannes Berkhof;Henry Brodaty

  • Prevalence and predictors of “subjective cognitive complaints” in the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study.

    Melissa J. Slavin;Henry Brodaty;Nicole A. Kochan;John D. Crawford

  • The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Diverse Geographical and Ethnocultural Regions: The COSMIC Collaboration

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Darren M. Lipnicki;Nicole A. Kochan;John D. Crawford

  • Mild cognitive impairment as a predictor of falls in community-dwelling older people.

    Kim Delbaere;Nicole A. Kochan;Jacqueline C.T. Close;Jasmine C. Menant

  • Discrete Neuroanatomical Networks Are Associated with Specific Cognitive Abilities in Old Age

    Wei Wen;Wanlin Zhu;Yong He;Nicole A Kochan

  • A comparison of machine learning methods for survival analysis of high-dimensional clinical data for dementia prediction.

    Annette Spooner;Emily Chen;Arcot Sowmya;Perminder Sachdev

  • Plasma apolipoprotein levels are associated with cognitive status and decline in a community cohort of older individuals.

    Fei Song;Anne Poljak;John Crawford;Nicole A. Kochan

  • Profile of and risk factors for poststroke cognitive impairment in diverse ethnoregional groups

    Jessica W. Lo;John D. Crawford;David W. Desmond;Olivier Godefroy

  • The association between systemic inflammation and cognitive performance in the elderly: the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

    Julian N Trollor;Evelyn Smith;Emmeline Agars;Stacey A Kuan

  • Metformin Use Is Associated With Slowed Cognitive Decline and Reduced Incident Dementia in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study.

    Katherine Samaras;Katherine Samaras;Katherine Samaras;Steve Makkar;John D. Crawford;Nicole A. Kochan

  • Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study

    Darren M Lipnicki;John D Crawford;Rajib Dutta;Anbupalam Thalamuthu

  • Mild cognitive impairment in a community sample: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

    Henry Brodaty;Megan Heffernan;Nicole A. Kochan;Brian Draper

  • Factors predicting reversion from mild cognitive impairment to normal cognitive functioning: a population-based study.

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Darren M. Lipnicki;John Crawford;Simone Reppermund

  • GWAS for executive function and processing speed suggests involvement of the CADM2 gene

    C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;Jan Bressler;S. Debette;M. Schuur

  • Impairment in instrumental activities of daily living with high cognitive demand is an early marker of mild cognitive impairment: the Sydney memory and ageing study

    S. Reppermund;H. Brodaty;J. D. Crawford;N. A. Kochan

  • The relationship of neuropsychological function to instrumental activities of daily living in mild cognitive impairment.

    Simone Reppermund;Perminder S. Sachdev;John Crawford;Nicole A. Kochan

  • Subjective cognitive decline and rates of incident Alzheimer's disease and non-Alzheimer's disease dementia

    Rosalinde E. R. Slot;Sietske A. M. Sikkes;Johannes Berkhof;Henry Brodaty

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Brodaty
Henry Brodaty University of New South Wales
Julian N. Trollor
Julian N. Trollor University of New South Wales
Melissa J. Slavin
Melissa J. Slavin University of New South Wales
Kaarin J. Anstey
Kaarin J. Anstey University of New South Wales
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
David Ames
David Ames University of Melbourne
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland
David J. Porteous
David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh

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