Even Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries Raise Risk for Dementia, Parkinson’s
A large body of research has tied traumatic brain injuries to an increased risk for neurodegenerative disease, but many questions remained.
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Five steps to meeting the challenges of maintaining an appropriate writing voice
Daniel Beaudoin shares five simple steps to keep the “me” in check
Podcast – Collaborative work in non-cognitive aspects of Alzheimer’s disease
How research has evolved quite considerably from the days of single author papers to exciting collaborations.
Profile – Dr Stephen Hall
Yorkshireman, podcast expert making the wise move from Epilepsy to Alzheimer’s Research
Profile – Dr Eleftheria Pervolaraki
Cat lover and award winning researcher, looking at negative effects of cardiac dysfunction on the brain at University of Leeds
Careers advice from the (dystopian) future
Great blog from UCL Careers service, once again drawing inspiration from our favourite streaming service.
Blog – Better Conversations for people with Primary Progressive Aphasia
Anna Volkmer is a NIHR Doctoral Fellow at University College London, in her blog she discusses her work to develop a new speech and language therapy intervention for people with language led dementia.
No nine to five job: working as a senior teaching fellow AND in the restaurant business
Inspiring story of Dr Sayeda Abu-Amero who has a PhD in fungal virology, and has been balancing teaching, research and a new career.
Do your bit on Defeat Dementia Day!
Alzheimer’s Research UK is making 12 May their first ever Defeat Dementia Day! Can you help?
A simple foolproof research proposal template
A practical template for building a persuasive research proposal, from the big question and evidence gap to your methods, timeline, budget and conclusion.
We need more carrots: give academic researchers the support and incentives to share data
Making data available for other researchers to find, use, reuse, and reproduce good… isn’t it?
Dr Anna Volkmer, University College London
Post-doc researcher working in speech and language therapy interventions in language led dementia – and not scary at all.