Felicity Slocombe discusses the start of her work on collective remembering or co-remembering and how it can be used in interactions with people living with dementia to help support identify.
Parkinson’s disease demonstrates a spectrum of motor and non-motor symptoms. Falling is common and disabling.
Aoife Kiely, Research Communications Officer, shares her highlights from the AAIC with insights from Dr Doug Brown, Chief Policy and Research Officer.
In July the UK Dementia Research Institute hosted a session at #FENS2020 Conference. Catch-up now to see Professor Bart De Strooper, Professor Karen Duff, Professor John Hardy and Professor Giovanna Mallucci.
Developing computational algorithms & machine-learning techniques, to transform cross-sectional imaging data to a longitudinal picture and reconstruct the sequence of disease progression.
A significant hurdle in developing therapeutics and care models for Alzheimer’s disease that work for people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds is the recruitment and retention of traditionally underrepresented groups in clinical trials.
Models can predict the location of cell structures from light-microscopy images alone, without the need for harmful fluorescence labelling. Find out more in this article by Amber Dance for Nature Careers
Traffic and industrial exhaust have long been linked to respiratory and cardiovascular disease, but far fewer studies have examined what this smog might do to the brain.
Research-optimized tools can take notes, dictate instructions and answer questions, allowing researchers to work hands-free.
The notorious amyloid precursor protein, central to Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis, sports a new look on Alzforum’s Mutations database.
”Alzheimer’s Afternoons” a bi-weekly online seminar series focused on the cell biology of AD. Catch-up now, and make this a standing item in your diaries.
Brush, Floss, Take a Protease Inhibitor? Do periodontal bacteria cause some cases of Alzheimer’s disease? Scientists at one start-up think so.
Felicity Slocombe
Dementia Researcher
UK DRI
Alz Forum
Alzheimer's Association
Nature Careers Blog