Podcast – MARQUE Study, Managing Agitation in Dementia
Dementia ResearcherMARQUE explores agitation in dementia care, testing staff training in care homes to improve wellbeing, reduce distress, and support better daily care.
Science
CSF tau and the CSF tau/ABeta ratio for the diagnosis of Dementias
This review, aims to assess the ability of CSF tau biomarkers (t-tau and p-tau) and the CSF tau (t-tau or p-tau)/ABeta ratio to enable the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Tracking LRRK2-Parkinson’s Progression for Better Trial Design
Parkinson’s disease comes in many flavors, posing a challenge for clinical trials. Knowing how the disease progresses may improve chances of success. A longitudinal study from the LRRK2 Ashkenazi Jewish Consortium provides just such data.
Does Daytime Drowsiness Foreshadow Aβ Accumulation?
Alz Forumhttps://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/does-daytime-drowsiness-foreshadow-av-accumulation
Blog – Caring for people who have dementia in Community Hospitals
Paul Brownbill, is from the University of South Wales, in his blog he talks about ‘Quality of Life and the Role of Communal Space in Sheltered Housing’
Cracking the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease
With Pfizer shutting down its neuroscience unit and a long list of failed late-stage trials, the sheer difficulty of improving the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has become painfully clear. How can researchers crack the mystery of this much-feared neurodegenerative disease?
My Research – involving people in research who lack capacity to consent
I am a researcher in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. My background is in nursing, but I have been an applied health researcher for the past 5 years,…
An introduction to overviews of reviews: planning a relevant research question and objective for an overview
Overviews of systematic reviews are a relatively new approach to synthesising evidence, and research methods and associated guidance are developing.
