Shireen Sindi

Shireen Sindi has a PhD and is an associate professor in gerontology at the Center for Alzheimer Research, Karolinska Institutet. She studies the connection between sleep disruptions, stress and sex differences across the spectrum, from normal ageing to Alzheimer’s disease. She also studies the effects of multidomain lifestyle interventions, which include diet, exercise, cognitive training and vascular/metabolic risk management of sleep and cognition. In addition, she studies biological mechanisms in several systems that contribute to cognitive decline and dementia risk factors.