Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience
Initiatives
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Epidemiological, behavioural, and neuroimaging, population representative sample (18–88 yrs.), measure health, lifestyle, SES, and psychiatry.
- Start Year
- 2010
- Funding
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) and the European Union Horizon 2020 LifeBrain project.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Three time points.
- Supplementary Information
- Stage 1: an interview including health and lifestyle questions, a core cognitive assessment, and a self-completed questionnaire of lifetime experiences and physical activity. Stage 2: Of those interviewed, 700 participants aged 18-87 (100 per age decile) continue to Stage 2 where they undergo cognitive testing and provide measures of brain structure and function (attention and executive control, language, memory, emotion, action control and learning.) Stage 3: A subset of 280 adults return for in-depth neurocognitive assessment using functional neuroimaging experiments across our key cognitive domains.
Marker Paper
Shafto, M.A., Tyler, L.K., Dixon, M. et al. The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing. BMC Neurol 14, 204 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-014-0204-1
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 2,690
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Adults aged 18-90 completed a home interview, and a subset of nearly 700 were scanned using structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://camcan-archive.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/dataac...