European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees 2022 Porto Research Award

Dr Donncha Mullin has been selected as the winner of the 2022 EFPT Porto Research Award for his study “Mechanisms of motoric cognitive risk: hypotheses based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies of older adults”. In this research, recently published in the very high impact journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, it was reported that Motoric Cognitive Risk is quick, practical, and simple to measure, and it was found that it has considerable prognostic value for dementia, cognitive impairment, falls and mortality. He proposed mechanisms for the relationship between motor and cognitive function and described a roadmap to validate these hypotheses.