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    Stephan Bandelow

    Stephan Bandelow

    Associate Director of Research, SGU Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Neuroscience & Behavioral Sciences

    Biography

    Dr. Stephan Bandelow is an Associate Professor at St. George’s University, Grenada, within the Department of Physiology, Neuroscience & Behavioral Sciences. His main teaching roles are currently in cellular and gastro-intestinal Physiology. Besides the teaching roles, Dr Bandelow is very active in research projects, including medical school curriculum analysis and structuring to support student learning, meta-analysis of medical topics, and collaborative projects with other schools across SGU. Dr Bandelow is also a member of international research groups, with funded projects in the area of healthy ageing and dementia. His research methods focus is on quantitative study design, statistical analysis and numerical modelling.

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    • Dementia
    • Age-related chronic disease
    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Language analysis and modelling
    • Medical semantics
    • Mixed effects models
    • Time series modelling
    • Geospatial analysis
    • Windward Islands Research & Education Foundation (WINDREF), St. George's University, Research Fellow
    • Member of the British Psychological Society

    Selected Publications

    • Moittié, S., Jarvis, R., Bandelow, S., Byrne, S., Dobbs, P., Grant, M., Reeves, C., White, K., Liptovszky, M., & Baiker, K. (2022). Vitamin D status in chimpanzees in human care: A Europe wide study. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 17625. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21211-6
    • Cartigny, E., Fletcher, D., Coupland, C., & Bandelow, S. (2021). Typologies of dual career in sport: A cluster analysis of identity and self-efficacy. Journal of Sports Sciences, 39(5), 583–590. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1835238
    • Martin, D., Papageorgiou, M., Colgan, H., Bandelow, S., Greeves, J. P., Tang, J. C. Y., Fraser, W. D., Cooper, S. B., Sale, C., & Elliott-Sale, K. J. (2021). The effects of short-term low energy availability, achieved through diet or exercise, on cognitive function in oral contraceptive users and eumenorrheic women. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 46(7), 781–789. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2020-0474
    • Clemes, S. A., Bingham, D. D., Pearson, N., Chen, Y.-L., Edwardson, C. L., McEachan, R. R. C., Tolfrey, K., Cale, L., Richardson, G., Fray, M., Altunkaya, J., Bandelow, S., Jaicim, N. B., Salmon, J., Dunstan, D. W., & Barber, S. E. (2020). Stand Out in Class: Restructuring the classroom environment to reduce sitting time – findings from a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 17(1), 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-020-00958-z
    • Furtado, G. E., Uba Chupel, M., Minuzzi, L., Patrício, M., Loureiro, M., Bandelow, S., Hogervorst, E., Ferreira, J. P., & Teixeira, A. M. (2020). Exploring the potential of salivary and blood immune biomarkers to elucidate physical frailty in institutionalized older women. Experimental Gerontology, 129, 110759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2019.110759
    • Niederstrasser, N. G., Rogers, N. T., & Bandelow, S. (2019). Determinants of frailty development and progression using a multidimensional frailty index: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. PLOS ONE, 14(10), e0223799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223799
    • MacLeod, H., Cooper, S., Bandelow, S., Malcolm, R., & Sunderland, C. (2018). Effects of heat stress and dehydration on cognitive function in elite female field hockey players. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-018-0101-9
    • Bakrania, K., Edwardson, C. L., Khunti, K., Bandelow, S., Davies, M. J., & Yates, T. (2017). Associations between sedentary behaviours and cognitive function: Cross-sectional and prospective findings from the UK Biobank. American Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx273
    • Soni, M., Orrell, M., Bandelow, S., Steptoe, A., Rafnsson, S., d’Orsi, E., Xavier, A., & Hogervorst, E. (2017). Physical activity pre- and post-dementia: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Aging & Mental Health, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1390731
    • Bandelow, S., Xu, X., Xiao, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2016). Cluster Analysis of Physical and Cognitive Ageing Patterns in Older People from Shanghai. Diagnostics, 6(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics6010011
    • Soni, M., White, L. R., Kridawati, A., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2016). Phytoestrogen consumption and risk for cognitive decline and dementia: With consideration of thyroid status and other possible mediators. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 160, 67–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2015.10.024
    • Niederstrasser, N. G., Hogervorst, E., Giannouli, E., & Bandelow, S. (2016). Approaches to Cognitive Stimulation in the Prevention of Dementia. Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Research, 01(s5). https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.S5-005
    • Martin, H. J., Turner, M. A., Bandelow, S., Edwards, L., Riazanskaia, S., & Thomas, C. L. P. (2016). Volatile organic compound markers of psychological stress in skin: A pilot study. Journal of Breath Research, 10(4), 046012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/10/4/046012
    • Devshi, R., Shaw, S., Elliott-King, J., Hogervorst, E., Hiremath, A., Velayudhan, L., Kumar, S., Baillon, S., & Bandelow, S. (2015). Prevalence of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in Individuals with Learning Disabilities. Diagnostics, 5(4), 564–576. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics5040564
    • Cooper, S. B., Bandelow, S., Nute, M. L., Dring, K. J., Stannard, R. L., Morris, J. G., & Nevill, M. E. (2016). Sprint-based exercise and cognitive function in adolescents. Preventive Medicine Reports, 4, 155–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.06.004
    • Cooper, S. B., Bandelow, S., Nute, M. L., Morris, J. G., & Nevill, M. E. (2015). Breakfast glycaemic index and exercise: Combined effects on adolescents’ cognition. Physiology & Behavior, 139, 104–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.11.024
    • Pindus, D. M., Davis, R. D. M., Hillman, C. H., Bandelow, S., Hogervorst, E., Biddle, S. J. H., & Sherar, L. B. (2014). The relationship of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity to cognitive processing in adolescents: Findings from the ALSPAC birth cohort. Psychological Research, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0612-2
    • Clifford, A., Rahardjo, T. B., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2014). A cross-sectional study of physical activity and health-related quality of life in an elderly Indonesian cohort. The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77(9), 451–456. https://doi.org/10.4276/030802214X14098207541036
    • Turner, M. A., Bandelow, S., Edwards, L., Patel, P., Martin, H. J., Wilson, I. D., & Thomas, C. L. P. (2013). The effect of a paced auditory serial addition test (PASAT) intervention on the profile of volatile organic compounds in human breath: A pilot study. Journal of Breath Research, 7(1), 017102. https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/7/1/017102
    • Arngrimsson, S. A., Gardarsdottir, S., Einarsson, I. T., Bandelow, S., Johannsson, E., & Daly, D. (2013). Level of Intellectual Disability is Associated with Fitness but not Adiposity among Intellectually Disabled Children. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 45(5), 265–265.
    • Cooper, S. B., Bandelow, S., Nute, M. L., Morris, J. G., & Nevill, M. E. (2012). The effects of a mid-morning bout of exercise on adolescents’ cognitive function. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 5(2), 183–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2012.10.002
    • Cooper, S. B., Bandelow, S., & Nevill, M. E. (2011). Breakfast consumption and cognitive function in adolescent schoolchildren. Physiology & Behavior, 103(5), 431–439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.03.018
    • Hogervorst, E., Rahardjo, T. B., & Bandelow, S. (2011). Cross cultural validation of a dementia screening test. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 7(4), S160–S161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2011.05.433
    • Hogervorst, E., Mursjid, F., Priandini, D., Setyawan, H., Ismael, R. I., Bandelow, S., & Rahardjo, T. B. (2011). Borobudur revisited: Soy consumption may be associated with better recall in younger, but not in older, rural Indonesian elderly. Brain Research, 1379, 206–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2010.10.083
    • Thornton, V., Warden, D., Talbot, C., S S Mastana, Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2011). Modification of estrogen’s association with Alzheimer’s disease risk by genetic polymorphisms. Brain Research, 1379, 213–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.074
    • Bandelow, S., Maughan, R., Shirreffs, S., Ozgünen, K., Kurdak, S., Ersöz, G., Binnet, M., & Dvorak, J. (2010). The effects of exercise, heat, cooling and rehydration strategies on cognitive function in football players. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 20 Suppl 3, 148–160. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01220.x
    • Kirby, E., Bandelow, S., Hogervorst, E. (2010). Visual Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Critical Review. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 1, 15–34. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-2010-080785
    • Hogervorst, E., & Bandelow, S. (2010). Sex steroids to maintain cognitive function in women after the menopause: A meta-analyses of treatment trials. Maturitas. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2010.02.005
    • Clifford, A., Yesufu Udechuku, A., Edwards, L., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2009). Maintaining cognitive health in elderly women. Aging Health, 5(5), 655–670. https://doi.org/10.2217/ahe.09.65
    • Hogervorst, E., Bandelow, S., Schmitt, J., Jentjens, R., Oliveira, M., Allgrove, J., Carter, T., & Gleeson, M. (2008). Caffeine improves physical and cognitive performance during exhaustive exercise. Med Sci Sports Exerc, 40(10), 1841–1851.
    • Hogervorst, E., & Bandelow, S. (2007). Should surgical menopausal women be treated with estrogens to decrease the risk of dementia? Neurology, 69(11), 1070–1071.
    • Lee, A. C. H., Bandelow, S., Schwarzbauer, C., Henson, R. N. A., & Graham, K. S. (2006). Perirhinal cortex activity during visual object discrimination: An event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage, 33(1), 362–373.
    • Yesufu, A., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2007). Meta-analyses of the effect of hormone treatment on cognitive function in postmenopausal women. Women’s Health (London, England), 3(2), 173–194. https://doi.org/10.2217/17455057.3.2.173
    • Plunkett, K., & Bandelow, S. (2006). Stochastic approaches to understanding dissociations in inflectional morphology. Brain Lang, 98(2), 194–209.
    • Hogervorst, E., Bandelow, S., Combrinck, M., & Smith, A. D. (2004). Low free testosterone is an independent risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. Experimental Gerontology, 39(11–12), 1633–1639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2004.06.019
    • E. Hogervorst, S. Bandelow, Combrinck, M., Irani, S. R., & Smith, A. D. (2003). The validity and reliability of 6 sets of clinical criteria to classify Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia in cases confirmed post-mortem: Added value of a decision tree approach. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 16(3), 170–180. https://doi.org/10.1159/000071006

    Selected Projects

    • Bandelow S. Rules and Exemplars in Inflectional Morphology: Connectionist, Behavioural and Cross-Linguistic Studies in Inflectional Morphology: Comparing German and English Past Tense and Plural Production. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller; 2009. ISBN 978-3-639-16050-5.
    • Wardt, V., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2011). Development of the cognitive computerized test battery for individuals with intellectual disabilities (CCIID) for the classification of athletes with intellectual disabilities. Nova Science Publishers.
    • Shaw, S., Susch, M., Elliott-King, J., Kassam, S., Devshi, R., Xin, X., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2016). Verbal Memory and the Diagnosis of Dementia: A Critical Literature Review Exploring the Clinical Utility of the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test for the Detection of Dementia. In A. Costa & E. Villalba (Eds.), Horizons in Neuroscience Research. Volume 26. (Vol. 26, pp. 29–56). Nova Science Publishers. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1441617
    • Atta-ur-Rahman, B. S. P., Clifford, A., Stock, J., Bandelow, S., Budi Rahardjo, T., & Hogervorst, E. (Eds.). (2013). Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: A Midlife Approach to Treatment is Needed. In Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research – Alzheimer Disorders (pp. 217–242). BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS. http://www.eurekaselect.com/node/115278
    • Clifford, A., Bandelow, S., & Hogervorst, E. (2010). The Effects of Physical Exercise on Cognitive Function in the Elderly: A Review. In Q. Gariépy & R. Ménard (Eds.), Handbook of cognitive aging: Causes, processes, and effects. Nova Biomedical Books. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3018341
    • Stephan Bandelow, Mark A Espeland, Victor W Henderson, Susan M Resnick, Robert B Wallace, Laura H Coker, & Eef Hogervorst. (2009). Identifying risk factors for cognitive change in the WHI Memory Study: A neural networks approach. In Eef Hogervorst, Victor W Henderson, Robert B Gibbs, & Roberta Diaz Brinton, Hormones, cognition and dementia: State of the art and emergent therapeutic strategies (pp. 11–25). Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521899376&ss=fro
    • Hogervorst, E., Bandelow, S., & Lehmann, D. (2001). Testosterone, gonadotropins, and genetic polymorphisms in men with Alzheimer’s disease. In E. Hogervorst, V. W. Henderson, R. B. Gibbs, & R. Diaz Brinton (Eds.), Hormones, Cognition and Dementia (pp. 171–178). Cambridge University Press. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ref/id/CBO9780511635700A031
    • Selected externally funded Research Projects Lead on WP3 of 'Active and Healthy Ageing' (Horizon 2020), 2015-2019 EUR 4.3 mil Standing Desk effects on school performance, cognition (co-I, NIHR) £ 456,912 Sustaining IT use by older people to promote autonomy and independence. ESRC, 2008-2012. WP2: Psychological performance and ICT use in the elderly £ 145,344 Eye tracking tools for dementia diagnosis (EMDA), 2010-11. £ 43,000 Assessment methods for learning disabilities (YSTF), 2008. £ 18,000 Caffeine, cognition and sports performance (Nestec), 2007. £ 53,841 Development of an LD classification system for athletes, 2006-2009 £ 40,000

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