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CITE is a research group within the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age in the Department of Psychiatry, co-led by A/Prof Alex Bahar-Fuchs and Dr Amit Lampit. We develop, evaluate, implement and study the mechanisms of cognition-oriented treatments across the lifespan and brain disorders.

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Some specific questions underlying our group’s research include:

How can cognitive treatments best support cognition and function in healthy people and those with cognitive impairments?
What are the biopsychosocial mechanisms that underpin cognitive treatment gains?
How can emerging technologies be used to optimise the benefits of cognitive treatments?
How to effectively combine cognitive and other evidence-based treatments (e.g., physical exercise and behaviour change) for best outcomes?
What are the most appropriate trial methodologies to advance research on cognitive interventions?
How can evidence synthesis methods be used to answer key clinical questions regarding the effects of cognitive treatments?

Projects conducted in our lab are multidisciplinary and involve a range of methodologies. We have extensive collaborations with researchers in Melbourne, as well as nationally and internationally. Our projects tend to fall into three broad research themes:

Optimising intervention design (including with emerging technologies)
Optimising trial design, implementation, and reporting
Optimising evidence synthesis methods