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Is age-related cognitive decline really as inevitable as it seems, or can we identify the factors that drive differences across cognitive functions and their underlying pathology? Can a handful of lifetime factors
truly explain nearly half of dementia risk? Drawing on large-scale epidemiological studies, including our own data, I examine the limitations of current approaches, from theoretical concepts such as “superageing” to cognitive testing and the interpretation of results. I then turn to the clinical context of subjective cognitive decline and discuss ideas for addressing it in an out-of-hospital setting.

Prof Draganski received his MD degree at the Humboldt University medical school in Berlin, Germany. As a fully qualified neurologist he completed his professional training in the UK´s and Germany´s premier clinical neuroscience centres. Parallel to his clinical education he turned to imaging neuroscience and was trained in state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to investigate brain morphology correlates of neurological disorders. In the following years, he conceived the speculative idea that local structure in the mature human brain may change in response to training and learning. Data he published first confirmed this to be a very germane idea that is leading to a new area of research exploring use-dependant plasticity. As a research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London he
developed a probabilistic diffusion tractography method to investigate cortico-basal ganglia pathways underlying goal-directed behaviour. Together with MR physicists he established a novel quantitative multi-
parameter approach to study in vivo histological properties of the brain and developed the correspondent analytical technique (voxel-based quantification-VBQ).
In 2024 Bogdan Draganski joined the University Bern, Switzerland as Professor for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Dementias. He is the Head of the Memory Clinic at the Neurology Department, Inselspital
University Hospital Bern. Under his leadership the imaging neuroscience laboratory inAGE focuses on the development and implementation of advanced non-invasive quantitative magnetic resonance neuroimaging
techniques for early diagnosis of neurodegeneration and investigating the neurobiology of mental disorders. Pr Draganski's scientific achievements in the field of computational anatomy prompted (inter)national
research labs to initiate collaborations in the field of neuroplasticity, neurodegeneration and ageing.


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