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Teresa Liu-Ambrose is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, physical therapy, sports therapy, rehabilitation, and rehabilitation broadly.

Their research covers a variety of topics, with significant work in dementia and cognitive impairment research, balance, gait, and falls prevention, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, physical activity and health, sleep and related disorders, and frailty in older adults.

Frequent publication venues for Liu-Ambrose include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Maturitas
  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Liu-Ambrose include:

  • World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative (2022), published in Age and Ageing
  • Risk factors for recurrent falls in older adults: A systematic review with meta-analysis (2020), published in Maturitas
  • Global consensus on optimal exercise recommendations for enhancing healthy longevity in older adults (ICFSR) (2025), published in The Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging
  • The impact of aerobic and resistance training intensity on markers of neuroplasticity in health and disease (2022), published in Ageing Research Reviews
  • Physical exercise, cognition, and brain health in aging (2024), published in Trends in Neurosciences

Liu-Ambrose has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Ryan S. Falck
  • Jennifer C. Davis
  • Chun Liang Hsu
  • Cindy K. Barha
  • Nárlon Cássio Boa Sorte Silva

The scope of Liu-Ambrose's work largely intersects with clinical and rehabilitation sciences aimed at improving health outcomes among older adults and individuals with neurological and movement disorders. Their contributions involve examining the effects of physical activity on cognitive and brain health as well as strategies for falls prevention.

Best Publications

  • A review of the effects of physical activity and exercise on cognitive and brain functions in older adults.

    Louis Bherer;Kirk I. Erickson;Teresa Liu-Ambrose

  • Resistance Training and Executive Functions: A 12-Month Randomized Controlled Trial

    Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu;Peter Graf;B. Lynn Beattie

  • Exercise, brain, and cognition across the life span.

    Michelle W. Voss;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu;Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Arthur F. Kramer

  • Resistance and agility training reduce fall risk in women aged 75 to 85 with low bone mass: a 6-month randomized, controlled trial.

    Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Karim M Khan;Janice J Eng;Patti A Janssen

  • Measuring sleep quality in older adults: a comparison using subjective and objective methods

    Glenn J. Landry;John R. Best;Teresa Liu-Ambrose

  • What is the association between sedentary behaviour and cognitive function? A systematic review.

    Ryan S Falck;Jennifer C Davis;Teresa Liu-Ambrose

  • Aerobic exercise increases hippocampal volume in older women with probable mild cognitive impairment: a 6-month randomised controlled trial

    Lisanne F ten Brinke;Niousha Bolandzadeh;Lindsay S Nagamatsu;Chun Liang Hsu

  • Resistance training promotes cognitive and functional brain plasticity in seniors with probable mild cognitive impairment.

    Lindsay S. Nagamatsu;Todd C. Handy;C. Liang Hsu;Michelle Voss

  • Resistance training and functional plasticity of the aging brain: a 12-month randomized controlled trial

    Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu;Michelle W. Voss;Karim M. Khan;Karim M. Khan

  • Sex differences in exercise efficacy to improve cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in older humans

    Cindy K. Barha;Jennifer C. Davis;Ryan S. Falck;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu

  • Impact of exercise training on physical and cognitive function among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Ryan S. Falck;Jennifer C. Davis;John R. Best;Rachel A. Crockett

  • Exercise and cognition in older adults: is there a role for resistance training programmes?

    Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Meghan G Donaldson

  • Increased Risk of Falling in Older Community-Dwelling Women With Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Teresa Y Liu-Ambrose;Maureen C Ashe;Peter Graf;B Lynn Beattie

  • Physical Activity Improves Verbal and Spatial Memory in Older Adults with Probable Mild Cognitive Impairment: A 6-Month Randomized Controlled Trial

    Lindsay S. Nagamatsu;Alison Chan;Jennifer C. Davis;B. Lynn Beattie

  • The independent contribution of executive functions to health related quality of life in older women

    Jennifer C Davis;Carlo A Marra;Mehdi Najafzadeh;Teresa Liu-Ambrose

  • The association between cognitive function and white matter lesion location in older adults: a systematic review

    Niousha Bolandzadeh;Jennifer C Davis;Roger Tam;Todd C Handy

  • Long-Term Effects of Resistance Exercise Training on Cognition and Brain Volume in Older Women: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

    John R. Best;Bryan K. Chiu;Chun Liang Hsu;Lindsay S. Nagamatsu

  • Guidelines for Assessment of Gait and Reference Values for Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Older Adults: The Biomathics and Canadian Gait Consortiums Initiative

    Olivier Beauchet;Olivier Beauchet;Gilles Allali;Gilles Allali;Harmehr Sekhon;Joe Verghese

  • Physical activity as a mediator of the impact of chronic conditions on quality of life in older adults.

    Richard Sawatzky;Teresa Liu-Ambrose;William C Miller;Carlo A Marra;Carlo A Marra

  • Balance confidence improves with resistance or agility training. Increase is not correlated with objective changes in fall risk and physical abilities.

    Teresa Liu-Ambrose;Karim M. Khan;J. J. Eng;Stephen R. Lord

  • The effects of proprioceptive or strength training on the neuromuscular function of the ACL reconstructed knee: a randomized clinical trial.

    T. Liu-Ambrose;J. E. Taunton;D. MacIntyre;P. McConkey

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd C. Handy
Todd C. Handy University of British Columbia
Michelle W. Voss
Michelle W. Voss University of Iowa
Louis Bherer
Louis Bherer University of Montreal
Peter Graf
Peter Graf University of British Columbia
Lara A. Boyd
Lara A. Boyd University of British Columbia
Caterina Rosano
Caterina Rosano University of Pittsburgh
Gilles Allali
Gilles Allali University of Lausanne
Kirk I. Erickson
Kirk I. Erickson University of Pittsburgh
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe University of California, San Francisco
Anne B. Newman
Anne B. Newman University of Pittsburgh

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