#PhDone! Thank you so much, Claire, but also to the examiners Claire and Clare! 😁 And many thanks to everyone who came to support me or joined for the celebrations! ❤️ I'm also happy to report the wonderful hat made it home with me despite the attention it gained at the airport security 😅 🎓

Yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis, bringing to a close my 3 years of 🧠 health research at Trinity College Dublin! Thank you to everyone who supported me along this journey. (Yes, I celebrated with my "Sleep and relax" herbal infusion, joined by Ms. Rubber Duck the Tea Strainer. 🦆)

Are you interested in gamified smartphone assessments or in ApoE-e4 effects on cognition? Come visit my poster 722 at #AAIC2024 to chat! 😊🧠 So excited to present more of PhD work with Neureka in Philadelphia this year!

These associations remained even after controlling for depression.👇 Age? Surprisingly, not a major player, as the associations were mostly consistent across lifespan and did not match the 'sensitive windows' proposed in the popular life-course model of dementia risk factors. 6/8

Depression, SES, hearing, loneliness, education, smoking, tinnitus, exercise, social network, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension were all linked to impairments in at least 1 measure. But when put on the same scale (C), SUBJECTIVE memory had the strongest link to most factors! 5/8

Let's look at cognition first: In line with previous studies, subjective and objective cognitive problems overlapped very little (r=.07–.16). Both types of cognition were worse in older participants. Women were more likely to have subjective, but not objective impairments! 4/8

We used the power of #citizenscience to gather cross-sectional data from 3,376(!) participants (ages 18–86, M=46) via @neurekaApp. We quantified the associations of 13 risk factors with both 1) subjective memory and 2) three objective (gamified! 👾) measures of executive function.