Gunhild Tidemann Okholm

Gunhild Tidemann Okholm, Section of Environmental Health, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, has been awarded a postdoc research grant from Lundbeck Foundation worth DKK 2,231,102.

Her project will investigate the influence that type 2 diabetes and depression can have on age-related decline in cognitive function. She will examine 5,000 Danish men who underwent health checks and intelligence tests when they were summoned for military duty around the age of 20 – and who later, in their 60s, underwent the same battery of tests.