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Overview

Robert F. Coen was affiliated with Mercer University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with particular attention to neurology, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, nutrition and dietetics, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist contributed to several main topics throughout their career, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • RNA regulation and disease

Coen's research was published in a range of scholarly venues, notably:

  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • HRB Open Research
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Journal of Personalized Medicine

Their recent published papers include:

  • Omega-3 fatty acid, carotenoid and vitamin E supplementation improves working memory in older adults: A randomised clinical trial, 2021, Clinical Nutrition
  • Clinical utility of mild cognitive impairment subtypes and number of impaired cognitive domains at predicting progression to dementia: A 20-year retrospective study, 2020, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Targeted Nutritional Intervention for Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Cognitive impAiRmEnt Study (CARES) Trial 1, 2020, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Cognitive and Structural Correlates of Conversational Speech Timing in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease: Relevance for Early Detection Approaches, 2021, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • A clinical, molecular genetics and pathological study of a FTDP-17 family with a heterozygous splicing variant c.823-10G>T at the intron 9/exon 10 of the MAPT gene, 2021, Neurobiology of Aging

Throughout their career, Coen collaborated frequently with several co-authors, such as:

  • Brian Lawlor
  • Cathal Walsh
  • Seán Kennelly
  • Jurgen A.H.R. Claassen
  • Rebecca Power

Best Publications

  • A review of screening tests for cognitive impairment

    Breda Cullen;Brian O'Neill;Jonathan J Evans;Robert F Coen

  • BEHAVIOUR DISTURBANCE AND OTHER PREDICTORS OF CARER BURDEN IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

    Robert F. Coen;Gregory R. J. Swanwick;Ciaran A. O'boyle;Davis Coakley

  • Sleep disturbance in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

    Maria Moran;C.A. Lynch;C. Walsh;R. Coen

  • Investigating the enhancing effect of music on autobiographical memory in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Muireann Irish;Conal J. Cunningham;J. Bernard Walsh;Davis Coakley

  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia Skrobot;Sandra Black;Christopher Chen;Charles Decarli

  • Normative Values of Cognitive and Physical Function in Older Adults: Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

    Rose Anne Kenny;Robert F. Coen;John Frewen;Orna A. Donoghue

  • Self-efficacy for managing dementia may protect against burden and depression in Alzheimer's caregivers

    Damien Gallagher;Aine Ni Mhaolain;Lisa Crosby;Deirdre Ryan

  • The Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia A. Skrobot;John T. O'brien;Sandra E. Black;Christopher Chen

  • Family members' attitudes toward telling the patient with Alzheimer's disease their diagnosis

    Conor P Maguire;Michael Kirby;Robert Coen;Davis Coakley

  • Loss of insight in frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy

    Fiadhnait M O'Keeffe;Brian Murray;Robert F Coen;Paul Dockree

  • Cognitive function in the prefrailty and frailty syndrome.

    Deirdre A. Robertson;George M. Savva;Robert F. Coen;Rose Anne Kenny

  • Impaired capacity for autonoetic reliving during autobiographical event recall in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Muireann Irish;Brian A. Lawlor;Shane M. O'Mara;Robert F. Coen

  • The attitudes and practices of general practitioners regarding dementia diagnosis in Ireland

    S. Cahill;M. Clark;H. O'Connell;B. Lawlor

  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease: Lack of Association Between Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Findings

    Gregory R.J. Swanwick;Michael Kirby;Irene Bruce;Fiona Buggy

  • Anxiety and behavioural disturbance as markers of prodromal Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    Damien Gallagher;Robert Coen;Dana Kilroy;Kate Belinski

  • Nilvadipine in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: A randomised controlled trial

    Brian Lawlor;Brian Lawlor;Ricardo Segurado;Sean Kennelly;Sean Kennelly;Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert

  • Individual Quality of Life Factors Distinguishing Low-Burden and High-Burden Caregivers of Dementia Patients

    Robert F. Coen;Ciaran A. O’Boyle;Davis Coakley;Brian A. Lawlor

  • A longitudinal evaluation of behavioural and psychological symptoms of probable Alzheimer's disease.

    A. Eustace;R. Coen;C. Walsh;C. J. Cunningham

  • Loneliness and cognition in older people: The Dublin Healthy Ageing study

    C. O’Luanaigh;H. O’Connell;A.-V. Chin;F. Hamilton

  • Burden in carers of dementia patients: higher levels in carers of younger sufferers

    Aideen Freyne;Nick Kidd;Robert Coen;Brian A. Lawlor

Frequent Co-Authors

Rose Anne Kenny
Rose Anne Kenny Trinity College Dublin
Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Michael J. Rowan
Michael J. Rowan Trinity College Dublin
Florence Pasquier
Florence Pasquier University of Lille
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Alistair Burns
Alistair Burns University of Manchester
Fiona Crawford
Fiona Crawford Roskamp Institute
Shane M. O'Mara
Shane M. O'Mara Trinity College Dublin
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Vincent de la Sayette
Vincent de la Sayette Université de Caen Normandie

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