CHSS Research Centre - Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology

CCACE’s (www.ccace.ed.ac.uk) aim is to understand the reciprocal influences of cognitive ability and health across the human life course and between generations.

Brain white matter connections of an LBC1936 participant
Brain white matter connections of an LBC1936 participant

Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology

CCACE’s aim is to understand the reciprocal influences of cognitive ability and health across the human life course and between generations.

It is funded by the Medical Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and the University of Edinburgh.

It began in 2008, and has been funded for a second quinquennium, until 2018. Its Director is Professor Ian Deary (Psychology).

CCACE is an international leader in the crucial field of Cognitive Ageing and the newer field of Cognitive Epidemiology.

Its mission is:

  • to elucidate the routes to the vulnerable ageing brain, and provide information to ameliorate cognitive disability and its consequences for health and wellbeing;
  • to determine the mechanisms by which lower cognitive ability through the life course renders the body vulnerable to ill health and impaired wellbeing;
  • to provide an outstanding environment for interdisciplinary research training.

It is a cross-College Centre with over 80 members, 6 Research Groups, 10 core staff, and its own PhD cohort, post-doctoral fellows, taught courses and pilot research funds.

Visit the website of the CCACE to learn more.

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