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Dementia, Risk factors, Memory
Ireland

Biography

I am a Research Assistant Professor based at the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago. My research focuses on identifying risk factors and early biomarkers of dementia. I am also a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin.

Web: https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/francesca-farina
Twitter: @FrancescaRoFa

Activities

Employment (8)

University of Chicago: Chicago, US

2024-03-01 to present | Research Assistant Professor
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Global Brain Health Institute: Dublin, Dublin, IE

2021 to present | Senior Atlantic Fellow
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Northwestern University: Chicago, IL, US

2022 to 2024 | Research Assistant Professor (Medical Social Sciences)
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Global Brain Health Institute: Dublin, IE

2020 to 2021 | Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health
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Trinity College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2017 to 2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience)
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University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2016 to 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher (School of Psychology)
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Dublin City University: Dublin, IE

2016 to 2017 | Undergraduate Lecturer (part-time) (Department of Psychology)
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National University of Ireland Maynooth: Maynooth, IE

2012 to 2015 | Undergraduate Lecturer (part-time) (Psychology)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2016 to 2016 | Project Management CPD course
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National University of Ireland Maynooth: Maynooth, Kildare, IE

2011 to 2015 | PhD in Neuroscience (Department of Psychology)
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National University of Ireland Maynooth: Maynooth, Kildare, IE

2008 to 2011 | BA (Hons) Psychology (1.1) (Department of Psychology)
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Professional activities (5)

National University of Ireland Maynooth: Maynooth, IE

WJ Smyth Award, Highest Academic Standing BA Psychology
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Alzheimer's Association: Chicago, Illinois, US

2019 to present | Executive Committee Member, Electrophysiology Professional Interest Area (ISTAART)
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Neuroscience Ireland Society: Dublin, IE

2011 to present | Member
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Journal of European Psychology Students: Brussels, BE

2012 to 2014 | Associate Editor
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Psychological Society of Ireland: Dublin, Dublin, IE

2011 | Graduate Presentation Award
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Funding (3)

Improving emotional well-being and quality of life in older adults experiencing dementia-related fear

2020 to 2021 | Grant
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (MA, MA, US)
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Emotional coping during memory loss: Developing the Fear-Avoidance in Memory loss (FAM) scale

2019-01-01 to present | Grant
Irish Research Council (Dublin, IE)
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Identifying individualised EEG biomarkers of mild cognitive impairment in older adults using a novel gamified approach and wireless EEG

2017-01-01 to present | Grant
Irish Research Council (Dublin, IE)
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Works (25)

Next generation brain health: transforming global research and public health to promote prevention of dementia and reduce its risk in young adult populations

The Lancet Healthy Longevity
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca R Farina; Katie Bridgeman; Sarah Gregory; Lucía Crivelli; Isabelle F Foote; Otto-Emil I Jutila; Ludmila Kucikova; Luciano I Mariano; Kim-Huong Nguyen; Tony Thayanandan et al.
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Hormonal contraception and risk for cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in young women, a scoping review of the evidence

2023-09-26 | Preprint
Contributors: Sarah Gregory; Laura Booi; Natalie Jenkins; Katie Bridgeman; Graciela Muniz-Terrera; Francesca Farina
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“Growing up we’re taught about physical activity, but very little mention of brain health, but it’s all brain health”: Exploring Conceptualization of Brain Health in Young Adults

2023-09-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Laura Booi; Katie Bridgeman; Sarah Gregory; Hosanna An; Melissa Marquez; Francesca Farina
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Fear and avoidance of memory loss is associated with subjective memory failures, reduced well-being and poorer social functioning in older adults

Open Science Framework
2021 | Preprint
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Are there consistent abnormalities in event‐related EEG oscillations in patients with Alzheimer’s disease compared to other diseases belonging to dementia?

Psychophysiology
2021-08-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0048-5772
Part of ISSN: 1469-8986
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A Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating the Feasibility of a Low-Intensity Psychological Intervention for Fear of Memory Loss and Quality of Life in Older Adults: Protocol for the Reducing Fear and Avoidance of Memory Loss (REFRAME) Study

JMIR Research Protocols
2021-07-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1929-0748
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Inconsistencies between objective and subjective measures of cognitive difficulties are associated with heightened psychological distress: A provisional functional cognitive difficulties account

2021-07-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Kira Williams; Joni Holmes, PhD; Francesca Farina; Maria Vedechkina; Marc Patrick Bennett
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Measures of resting state EEG rhythms for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations of an expert panel

Alzheimer's & Dementia
2021-04-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1552-5260
Part of ISSN: 1552-5279
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Digital Biomarkers Based Individualized Prognosis for People at Risk of Dementia: the AltoidaML Multi-site External Validation Study

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783030326210
Part of ISBN: 9783030326227
Part of ISSN: 0065-2598
Part of ISSN: 2214-8019
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Fear of memory loss predicts increased memory failures and lower quality of life in older adults: preliminary findings from a fear-avoidance of memory loss (FAM) scale

Aging & Mental Health
2020-12-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1360-7863
Part of ISSN: 1364-6915
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Hippocampal and prefrontal contributions to memory retrieval: Examination of immediate early gene, NMDA receptor and environmental interactions

European Journal of Neuroscience
2020-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0953-816X
Part of ISSN: 1460-9568
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A comparison of resting state EEG and structural MRI for classifying Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment

NeuroImage
2020-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1053-8119
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Examining the effects of memory specificity and perceptual load on susceptibility to misleading information

Applied Cognitive Psychology
2020-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0888-4080
Part of ISSN: 1099-0720
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EEG spectral power, but not theta/beta ratio, is a neuromarker for adult ADHD

European Journal of Neuroscience
2020-05 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1460-9568
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Fear of memory decline predicts lower quality of life and increased memory failures in older adults: Preliminary findings from a novel fear-avoidance of memory decline scale.

2020-05-19 | Preprint
Contributors: Francesca Farina; Marc Patrick Bennett; James William Griffith; Bert Lenaert
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Contralateral delay activity is not a robust marker of cognitive function in older adults at risk of mild cognitive impairment

European Journal of Neuroscience
2020-01-03 | Journal article
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Part of ISSN: 1460-9568
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Depression diagnoses, but not individual differences in depression symptoms, are associated with reduced autobiographical memory specificity

British Journal of Clinical Psychology
2019-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0144-6657
Part of ISSN: 2044-8260
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Brain event-related potentials predict individual differences in inhibitory control

International Journal of Psychophysiology
2019-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0167-8760
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Memory specificity, but not perceptual load, affects susceptibility to misleading information

2019-03-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Francesca Farina; Ciara Greene
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Why Science Needs Art

Routledge
2018-04-17 | Book
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Synaesthesia lost and found: two cases of person- and music-colour synaesthesia

European Journal of Neuroscience
2017-02 | Journal article
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Differential expression of immediate early genes Zif268 and c-Fos in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex following spatial learning and glutamate receptor antagonism

Behavioural Brain Research
2016-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0166-4328
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Learning efficiency: The influence of cue salience during spatial navigation

Behavioural Processes
2015-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0376-6357
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Event-related brain potentials reveal correlates of the transformation of stimulus functions through derived relations in healthy humans.

2015-03 | Journal article
Contributors: O'Regan LM; Farina FR; Hussey I; Roche RA
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Francesca R Farina via Europe PubMed Central
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An analysis of language in university students' text messages

2014 | Journal article
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Contributors: Lyddy, F.; Farina, F.; Hanney, J.; Farrell, L.; Kelly O'Neill, N.
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Francesca R Farina via Scopus - Elsevier

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for PloS one. (1)