Gideon Neidenmark

About Gideon Neidenmark

About Gideon
Gideon is a PhD student in Psychology at Örebro University. His doctoral research focuses broadly on aging, cognition, and the brain.

Research
Gideon conducts his research within the Individual Development and Adaptation (IDA) programme, a longitudinal research project that has followed a cohort of individuals born in Örebro since 1965. His work primarily draws on data from the programme’s current follow-up study, Early Life Determinants of Successful Cognitive and Brain Aging (IDA-Brain).

In this follow-up, a subsample of IDA participants undergo comprehensive cognitive testing and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Gideon’s thesis examines how early-life factors predict cognitive performance and brain structure and function later in life. Specifically, his research aims to determine whether cognitive outcomes and brain aging in older adulthood can be explained by experiences and characteristics measured during childhood.

A central aspect of Gideon’s work is the integration of both subjective cognitive experiences and objective measures of cognitive performance and brain structure/function, providing a comprehensive perspective on cognitive and brain aging.