Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Xu Xin

Biography

Dr. Xin Xu working in Psychology Division, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. He was previous worked for Memory, Ageing and Cognition Center, National University of Singapore.

His reaserch inrest Hopkins verbal learning test; Mild cognitive impairment; Dementia. With an advancing age, there is an average decline in various areas of cognitive function, such as episodic memory and speed of complex information processing. Dementia is a separate progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes a severe decline in memory and other cognitive abilities, which have a significant impact on the quality of life. There is currently no effective treatment. Globally, the number of people afflicted with dementia has shown a steady growth over the last decades. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is defined as cognitive decline worse than that of those who have a similar advanced age, but which causes no interference with activities of daily life, such as dementia does. The most commonly used MCI diagnostic criteria were developed by Petersen et al. and confer an increased risk for dementia

Research Interest

Cognative Disorders, Dementia and Neuroscience.