2011

2011-11-23 ARC researchers at Nature Café in Berlin
Professors Laura Fratiglioni and Lars Bäckman of ARC participated in a moderated discussion about brain aging and prevention of dementia in Berlin this past week. The event was arranged by Karolinska Institutet, Nature Publishing Group, and the Swedish Embassy in Berlin. Speakers included German researcher Michael A. Rapp and the two ARC researchers.  Associate Editor Michelle Grayson of Nature Publishing Group moderated.

2011-11-23 ARC researchers receive substantial new grants
Since September, researchers at ARC have received over 12 million SEK in grants from VR and 3 million from FAS. The funding will be distributed over a period of 3 to 4 years. Read more

2011-11-15 Mats Thorslund in the national media

2011-11-03 Miia Kivipelto awarded international prize

2011-10-24 Laura Fratiglioni receives prize

2011-10-03 Miia Kivipelto appointed professor of Clinical Geriatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet.

2011-10-03 Mats Thorslund interviewed in Vision, the magazin published by SKTF, a Swedish labor union. Read more (in Swedish)

2011-09-28 "Consumers of eldercare in Sweden: The semblance of choice" ARC researchers publish op-ed piece in Dagens Nyheter
In a recent study, ARC researchers Bettina Meinow, Marti Parker and Mats Thorslund found that slightly more than half of persons aged 77 and older in Sweden lack certain abilities that are important for making choices about who will provide them with medical and social services. These older people may not be able to play the part of rational and well-informed consumers. Combined with the lack of information available about care services, the authors warn that expecting eldercare to be self-correcting by introducing more market-based policies is problematic. The study is available online in the journal Social Science & Medicine, link to abstract

Read the Dagens Nyheter op-ed article about the implications of their findings here. (Op-ed article in Swedish.)

2011-09-02 Course in Neuroepidemiology
Link to the program
Link to registration form

2011-08-16 Brain training increases dopamine release
Updating of working memory has been associated with striato-frontal brain regions and phasic dopaminergic neurotransmission. We assessed raclopride binding to striatal dopamine (DA) D2 receptors during a letter-updating task and a control condition before and after 5 weeks of updating training. Results showed that updating affected DA activity before training and that training further increased striatal DA release during updating. These findings highlight the pivotal role of transient neural processes associated with D2 receptor activity in working memory
Link to Karolinska Institutet
Link to SVT

2011-06-22 During the past year ARC has got two new associate professors, Kristina Johnell and Chengxuan Qiu.

2011-05-03 Midlife overweight may increase risk of dementia

2011-04-08 The open day at the House of Aging Research was a success! Read more and see pictures from the day (in Swedish)

2011-03-23 Professor Mats Thorslund has been awarded the Swedish Gerontology Society's 2011 gerontology prize (Stora Gerontologipriset).
Read more (in Swedish)

2011-02-17 Professor Laura Fratiglioni will give a lecture at AAAS conference in Washington on February 20th.
Link to AAAS
Link to KI

2011-02-04 The Gerontological Society of America has Marti Parker in its member spotlight this month.

2011-01-25 Course:Summer School on Modern Methods in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

2011-01-25 Course: Health and health behavior in a life course perspective

2011-01-21 VR celebrated 10 years with a seminar that now is published at their web. Laura Fratiglioni was one of the speaker.

2011-01-17 Laura Fratiglioni has been appointed distinguished professor award from Karolinska Institutet.

2011-01-17 Lars Bäckman has been appointed af Jochnick professor in the cognitive neuroscience of aging. The appointment is based on a  donation from the af Jochnick Foundation comprising 50 million Swedish kronor over a period of 10 years. Read more

2010

2010-11-23 Healty ageing - mission impossible? Conference organized by the Social Council at Rosenbad. Scientific responsible for the conference is professor Laura Fratiglioni.
Watch the webb-confernce

2010-11-23 New fundings to ARC researchers from VR and FAS. Read more

2010-11-22 Professor Mats Thorslund appeared in a discussion on "Aktuellt" on SVT2 about dementia care (in Swedish).

2010-10-26 Heavy smokers 'at increased risk of dementia', read more

2010-10-19 Vitamin B12 may reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease

2010-08-23 High levels of several vitamin E components in the blood are associated with a decreased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in advanced age, suggesting that vitamin E may help prevent cognitive deterioration in elderly people.

2010-08-23 Phd Hui-Xin Wang has recived a position as senior researcher at Karolinska Instiutet.

2010-06-14 Professor Mats Thorslund has written a debate article "The future funding of eldercare – more money less talk" for the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Link to the article (in Swedish)

2010-04-12 Read the ARC activity report 2009

2010-03-16 Professor Laura Fratiglioni has been rewarded with Silviahemmet's research and education scholarship from the Queen Silvia of Sweden Read more

2009

2009-11-23 Phd Weili Xu has receive a two-year  grant as postdoc from FAS.
Read more

2009-11-17 Phd Chengxuan Qiu has receive a two-year  grant as senior researcher at Karolinska Institutet.
Read more

2009-11-16 Associate professor Miia Kivipelto receive Academy of Finland Awards.
Read more

2009-10-23 Lars Bäckman has been part of an international expert consensus group, who has published a document on brain health in aging.
Read more

2009-10-19 Presentations and photos from the
SNAC-K day 7th October at Piperska muren. Read more

2009-10-19 Professor Laura Fratiglioni, has received the Folksam Prize for Epidemiologic Research 2009.
Professor Fratiglioni will give a lecture on the subject ”We are getting older: shall we do something?” on October 28 at 13.00-14.00. Venue: Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 1.
Read more

2009-08-18 Professor Laura Fratiglioni, has received the Folksam Prize for Epidemiologic Research 2009. Read more

2009-08-14 PhD Anna Rita Atti received a travel award at the IAGG conference in Paris in July 2009. Read more

2009-08-11 PhD Kristina Johnell was interviewed in Dagens Nyheter. Read more (in Swedish)

2009-05-19 PhD student Ylva Haasum has received KID-funding from Karolinska Institutet. Read more

2009-05-18 PhD Weili Xu has received the prize for best clinical diabetological thesis 2008 from Svensk Förening för Diabetologi.

2009-04-29 From Loo and Hans Osterman Fundation five researchers at ARC are granted. Read more

2009-02-02 Sundsvalls Tidning interviews professor Mats Thorslund. Read more (in Swedish)

2009-01-21 Svenska Dagbladet interviews PhD Hui-Xin Wang. Read more (in Swedish)

2009-01-20 Dagens Nyheter interviews professor Laura Fratiglioni. Read more (in Swedish)

2009-01-20 Karolinska Institutet site about drugs in the elderly. Read more (in Swedish)

2008

2008-12-04 The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) has granted professor Laura Fratiglioni, postdoc Erika Jonsson-Laukka and postdoc Sara Angleman. Read more

2008-11-06 Professor Lars Bäckman has received the Humboldt Research Award for 60 000 EUR. Read more

2008-10-17 Professor Laura Fratiglioni has received a grant for 500 000 SEK for 3 years from The Swedish Society of Medicine. Read more

2008-03-20 Professor Laura Fratiglioni gets the Inga Sandeborgs award 2008 from The Swedish Society of Medicine. Read more

2008-03-20 Associate Professor Marti Parker has received a grant for a total of 5 000 000 SEK from FAS.
Read more

2008-03-20 International Courses. Read more.

2008-02-06 The King and the Queen visited ARC andthe Stockholm Gerontology Center. Read more.

2007

2007-12-17 ARC has received a grant of 1 million SEK per year from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social research (FAS) to run a National Graduate School for Aging Research Read More

Prior to 2007

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