World Delirium Awareness Day Journal Club

Wednesday 11 March

World Delirium Awareness Day Journal Club

As part of World Delirium Awareness Day, the ADA is hosting a special Journal Club focused on cutting-edge delirium research. Join us for an insightful discussion led by Dr Natasha Taylor from The University of Sydney, exploring how brain network connectivity can predict postoperative delirium risk. Moderated by Prof Robert Sanders and Dr Anita Nitchingham, this journal club will unpack a recent British Journal of Anaesthesia study and its implications for delirium prevention, research, and clinical practice. (doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2025.11.036.)

Date: 11th March at 4pm (AEDT)

Title: Predicting Delirium Before the Scalpel: Brain Networks and Surgical Risk

Dr Natasha Taylor's research focuses on the role of the ascending arousal system in facilitating dynamic brain state transitions in both healthy and diseased brains, and how these brain state transitions are critical for normal brain function and cognition. She utilises methods from network neuroscience, multi-modal neuroimaging and dynamical systems to explore how fluctuations in the underlying ascending arousal systems contribute to changes in brain states and cognition.