profile icon
A/Prof

Alex Bahar-Fuchs

Honorary
Psychiatry
Dementia
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Healthy Ageing
Subjective Cognitive Decline
Cognitive Training
Cognitive Rehabilitation
Clinical Trials
Olfaction
Behaviour-Change
Alex Bahar-Fuchs's Profile Picture
A/Prof

Alex Bahar-Fuchs

 
Division
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Alex Bahar-Fuchs's Profile Picture
A/Prof

Alex Bahar-Fuchs

 
Print
Alex's  Short Profile
 

Projects

Displaying the 6 most recent projects from 6 for Alex Bahar-Fuchs.

Project icon

Research Program on Cognitive- and Neuromodulation-Based Interventions

2021 - 2026
Active
Project icon

Olfactory-based cognitive training (Mind Your Nose Study)

2022 - 2024
Active
Project icon

Concurrent cognitive and meta-cognitive training for neuropsychiatric symptoms in young-onset dementia

2021 - 2023
Active
Project icon

Advancing the science and practice of mobile and ecological cognitive treatments across the lifespan and neurocognitive disorders

2020 - 2022
Completed
Project icon

COGNITION-ORIENTED TREATMENTS FOR OLDER ADULTS ON THE SPECTRUM FROM COGNITIVE HEALTH TO DEMENTIA: IMPROVING METHODOLOGIES AND OUTCOMES

Older adults, with and without memory problems, frequently seek ‘brain stimulating’ activities to reduce their dementia risk. Many such acti..

2017 - 2022
Completed
Project icon

Cognition-focused Interventions Design, Evaluation, and Reporting (CIDER): A repository of cognition-focused intervention trials targeting older adults

2017 - 2018
Completed

6

Projects

Project Types

5

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

Additional Information

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 72 for Alex Bahar-Fuchs.

Scholarly works icon

Exercise interventions to reduce anxiety in mid-life and late-life anxiety disorders and subthreshold anxiety disorder: a systematic review

Terence WH Chong, Scherazad Kootar, Helen Wilding, Sarah Berriman, Eleanor Curran, Kay L Cox, Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Ruth Peters, Kaarin J Anstey, Christina Bryant, Nicola T Lautenschlager

Journal article  |  2022  |  THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent and cause significant distress, disability, and cost. Medication adverse effect..

Scholarly works icon

Age of Symptom Onset and Longitudinal Course of Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, and Vascular Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sally Day, Stefanie Roberts, Nathalie H Launder, Anita MY Goh, Brian Draper, Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Samantha M Loi, Kate Laver, Adrienne Withall, Monica Cations

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

BACKGROUND: Understanding how the age of dementia symptom onset affects the longitudinal course of dementia can assist with progno..

Scholarly works icon

The effects of concurrent cognitive and meta-cognitive training on neuropsychiatric symptoms of people living with younger onset dementia: Protocol for a pilot trial

JM Sabates, SM Loi, NT Lautenschlager, A Brodtmann, A Bahar-Fuchs

Journal article  |  2021  |  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

BACKGROUND: Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are behavioural and psychological disturbances frequent in people with dementia that h..

Scholarly works icon

CogTale: an online platform for the evaluation, synthesis, and dissemination of evidence from cognitive interventions studies

Julieta Sabates, Sylvie Belleville, Mary Castellani, Tzvi Dwolatzky, Benjamin M Hampstead, Amit Lampit, Sharon Simon, Kaarin Anstey, Belinda Goodenough, Serafino Mancuso, Davis Marques, Richard Sinnott, Alex Bahar-Fuchs

Journal article  |  2021  |  SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are critical in health-related decision-making, and are considered the gold standard in resea..

Scholarly works icon

Combined physical and cognitive training for older adults with and without cognitive impairment: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Hanna Malmberg Gavelin, Christopher Dong, Ruth Minkov, Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Kathryn A Ellis, Nicola T Lautenschlager, Maddison L Mellow, Alexandra T Wade, Ashleigh E Smith, Carsten Finke, Stephan Krohn, Amit Lampit

Journal article  |  2021  |  AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Combining physical exercise with cognitive training is a popular intervention in dementia prevention trials and guidelines. Howeve..

Scholarly works icon

Toward a theory-based specification of non-pharmacological treatments in aging and dementia: Focused reviews and methodological recommendations

Sietske Sikkes, Yi Tang, Roos J Jutten, Linda Wesselman, Lyn Turkstra, Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Jeanette Tamplin, Zara Thompson, Amit Lampit

Journal article  |  2021  |  Alzheimer's and Dementia

INTRODUCTION: Non-pharmacological treatments (NPTs) have the potential to improve meaningful outcomes for older people at risk of,..

Scholarly works icon

Cognition-oriented treatments for older adults: A systematic review of the influence of depression and self-efficacy individual differences factors

Shannon L Webb, Damian P Birney, Vanessa Loh, Sarah Walker, Amit Lampit, Alex Bahar-Fuchs

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION

The increasing prevalence of cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia with the aging population has led to..

Scholarly works icon

We need a model of health and aged care services that adequately supports Australians with dementia

Lee-Fay Low, Kate Laver, Katherine Lawler, Kate Swaffer, Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Sally Bennett, Annaliese Blair, Jason Burton, Michele Callisaya, Monica Cations, Claire MC O'Connor, Meredith Gresham, Gill Lewin, Petrea Messent, Christopher J Poulos, Jacqueline Wesson, Theresa L Scott, Glenn Rees

Journal article  |  2021  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

Scholarly works icon

Cognitively oriented treatments in dementia

Alex Bahar-Fuchs, Loren Mowszowski, Nicola T Lautenschlager, Kay Cox

Book Chapter  |  2021

Scholarly works icon

Neurophysiological mechanisms and outcomes of nonpharmacologic interventions for neurological disease or injury: Introduction to special issue

Benjamin M Hampstead, Alex Bahar-Fuchs

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

72

Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Clinical Sciences
Clinical Health
Cognitive and Computational Psychology
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)
Neurosciences
Health Services and Systems
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
Provision of Health and Support Services
Biological Psychology

News

Displaying the 3 most recent news articles from 3 for Alex Bahar-Fuchs.

News icon

Training your brain in lockdown

Amit Lampit, Alex Bahar-Fuchs

We’ve all heard the saying “use it or lose it”, a colloquial yet rather accurate illustration of how the brain changes over time, namely th..

April 8, 2020
pursuit Article
News icon

An impaired sense of smell can signal cognitive decline, but 'smell training' could help

Anna Wolf, Alex Bahar-Fuchs

As we age, we often have problems with our ability to smell (called olfactory dysfunction). Older people might not be able to identify an o..

March 13, 2019
conversation Article
News icon

How smelling can help your brain

Anna Wolf, Alex Bahar-Fuchs

As we age, we can start to lose our sense of smell. Older people may not be able to identify a specific odour, differentiate one odour from..

March 13, 2019
pursuit Article

3

News Articles

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2012

Receipient of a Churchill Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in 2012

Churchill Memorial Trust
2005

Recipient of the Monash International Research Scholarship (MIPRS)

Monash University
2004

Receipient of the Melbourne International Postgraduate Coursework Scholarship

University of Melbourne

3

Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Psychiatry

Honorary

Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Member Of Istaart And Chair Of The Non-Pharmacological Interventions Professional Interests Area (Npi-Pia)- 2016-2019

International Society for Advacement of Alzheimer's Research and Treatment

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Australian National University

Phd (Clinical neuropsychology)

Monash University

Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts

Ben-Gurion University of The Negev

Links

Certificates & Licences

Registered Psychologist

Australian Health Practitioner Regulatroy Agency

Awarded: 01 Mar 2007

Languages

Hebrew

International Linkages

Sheba Medical Centre

Israel

Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre

Israel

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Israel

University of Michigan

United States