Simple strategies to protect the ageing brain from dementia.
Marina Annetta Lynch
- đź“…Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- đź•Ą10:30 – 11:30
- 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)
Marina will talk about factors that contribute to dementia, and especially Alzheimer’s disease These can be classified as modifiable and non-modifiable risks. The talk will concentrate on the modifiable risks, explain why they are risks, describe how the risks can be mitigated and how the mitigation works
Marina Lynch Is Fellow Emeritus in the School of Medicine (Physiology), Trinity College Dublin. She held a lectureship in Trinity and, since 2006, a Personal Chair in Cellular Neuroscience. She was Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience 2006 and 2009 and is currently Chair of the Board of the Institute. She was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy in May 2009.
Her research, mainly preclinical, focussed on determining the changes that occur in the brain with age, especially those that contributed to the pathology that characterises Alzheimer’s disease. Most recent work concerned the sex-related differences in Alzheimer’s disease.
