Resetting Brain Rhythms Gives Working Memory a Brief Boost
Alz ForumGroups of neurons fire in sync with each other across the brain when it performs a task; however, with age, they fall out of step. Can an electrical current have a restorative effect?
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LEARN to help people Join Dementia Research
Adam SmithThe NIHR has launched a simple new online awareness tool, to help healthcare professionals and researchers find out more about Join Dementia Research, and how they can help patients become involved.
How mindfulness can help Ph.D. students deal with mental health challenges
Dementia ResearcherIn this blog by Katie Langin for Science Magazine, Katie explores how mindfulness helped PhD students deal with mental health challenges at the University of Tasmania.
Horizon 2020 grant holders – register now
UK organisations holding grants from Horizon 2020, the European Union’s flagship programme for research and innovation, need to submit information about them into a UKRI portal designed to capture basic details about the grants.
Help develop the Cognitive Footprint: a new public engagement project
Be part of the team exploring the development of an exciting, novel concept. Read on to find out how Early Career Researchers can get involved in workshops with patients and public or help contribute to the debate.
Calling all PhD students and postdocs – Could you host summer student?
Want to make a difference and support a young person from disadvantaged backgrounds gain an insight into research?
Lyrical Science: Raising Philanthropy for Basic Science Through Creative Communication
Lyrical Science helping early-career medical scientists pitch their research to philanthropists in an effort to unlock private sources of funding for the scientific community. Have your chance to pitch on the 1st June.
Disease-in-a-dish studies open a window to a new level of detail in dementia
Blog by Bryan Ng from University of Oxford, for Dementia Platforms UK. Working with patient-specific stem cells comparing experimental outcomes he’s observing with symptoms recorded in the clinics.
New NIHR funding awards website
The website provides information about NIHR funding awards for research, career development, infrastructure and Global Health projects.
Review assesses the benefits and harms of exercise for preventing falls in older people living in the community
New evidence published in the Cochrane Library provides strong evidence that falls in people over sixty-years old can be prevented by exercise programmes.
Principal investigators are people, too
Recognising that fact could help researchers in their journey through their graduate studies, says one second-year PhD student in this blog for Nature Careers.
NIHR launches £56 million new funding competition for public health research
Providing high quality research evidence for public health policy and practise, to support PHE in delivering its objectives and functions for public health protection.