Linacre College
Professor Klaus Ebmeier
Emeritus Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Emeritus Fellow Linacre College
About
Professor Klaus Ebmeier's research focuses on why some people suffer from depression and memory loss as they age, while others stay well, using methods such as large cohort studies, neuroimaging and genetic techniques.
Expertise
- Depression
- Dementia
- Mental ageing
- Antidepressants
- Psychiatry (in late life)
- Neuroimaging
Selected publications
- Will Precision Medicine Still Require Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes? (2026)
- Another Dementia Biomarker? (2026)
- Cannabis use, cognitive function and dementia risk in older adults: observational and genetic analyses (2026)
- The Relationship Between Hippocampal Cerebrovascular Reactivity and Brain Structure in Older Age (2026)
- Relationships between alcohol use and dementia: protocol for an observational study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2026)
- Alcohol use and risk of dementia in diverse populations: evidence from cohort, case–control and Mendelian randomisation approaches (2026)
- High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and risk of dementia: the 25-year longitudinal Whitehall II study (2026)
- Associations of aortic and carotid artery health with cerebrovascular markers and cognition in older adults from the Whitehall II imaging study (2025)
- No significant association between self-reported physical activity and brain volumes in women and men from five European cohorts (2025)
- Association of Diet and Waist-to-Hip Ratio With Brain Connectivity and Memory in Aging (2025)
Media experience
Professor Klaus Ebmeier has experience of working with the media.
Languages
English, German
Recent media work
- No amount of alcohol is safe, at least for dementia risk, study finds (The Washington Post, 2025)
- Any alcohol use increases dementia risk, study finds (BBC News, 2025)
- There is no safe amount of alcohol when it comes to dementia, study finds (CNN, 2025)
- Diet quality and abdominal fat in midlife are linked to brain health in older age (PsyPost, 2025)
- Prescribing antidepressants for dementia (Science Media Centre, Germany, 2025)
- Prevention of 14 risk factors could prevent dementia cases (Science Media Centre, Germany, 2024)
- Expert reaction to 2024 Lancet Commission report on dementia prevention, intervention, and care (Science Media Centre, 2024)