Research Highlight

Lecture: Understanding the role of vascular disease and its impact on risk factors associated with dementia.

Professor Ingmar Skoog, Director of the Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research group of Psychiatry at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Professor Ingmar Skoog is a world leader on issues related to mental health and ageing.

He has worked with a number of global groups including The World Health Organisation, European Union, British Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health.

He is a recipient of number of prestigious awards, including the Zenith Fellows Award from the Alzheimer's Association and the Danish Strömgren prize in psychiatry.

Prof Skoog has been involved in the world's longest running population study and was the first to report on the link between vascular disease risk factors and dementia. He continues to explore vascular, genetic and hormonal factors linked to dementia and other mental health disorders in the ageing population.

Professor Skoog's most influential studies to date are:

15-Year longitudinal study of blood pressure and dementia
Skoog I, Lernfelt B, Landahl S, et al.
LANCET, Volume: 347:1141-1145
Published: Apr 27 1996
Times Cited: 573

A population-based study of dementia in 85-year-olds
Skoog I, Nilson L, Palmertz B, et al.
New England Journal of Medicine, Volume: 328:153-158
Published: Jan 21 1993
Times Cited: 420

Professor Skoog's Lecture on Vascular Disease and Dementia [MP3, 20.6MB]