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Could research help predict how dementia symptoms progress?
June 10 @ 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
After a dementia diagnosis, many people and their families want to know what to expect from the future. But right now, doctors don’t have ways to predict how an individual’s dementia may progress.
Scientists are working to change this by studying how dementia develops in different people. By bringing together large datasets, they hope to spot patterns and discover ways to predict how dementia may progress. This research could help give clearer answers about what can be expected after a diagnosis and improve the support available.
Join Dr Timothy Rittman and Dr Miriam Vignando as they share their latest research studying how dementia progresses. Hear how their work is helping to improve predictions and what this could mean for future research, care and treatment.
Dr Timothy Rittman is an Alzheimer’s Research UK Senior Research Fellow and a Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His research explores how dementia progresses over time and how we can better predict its course. By studying brain scans, cognitive tests, and clinical data, his work aims to give people clearer answers about what to expect after a dementia diagnosis, helping to improve care and support for those affected.
Dr Miriam Vignando is an Alzheimer’s Research UK Research Fellow at King’s College London. Her research hopes to uncover the reasons why some people are more likely to develop dementia faster than others when they have the same diagnosis. She will use powerful computer analysis to bring together brain imaging and clinical data from people with dementia, to spot patterns in progression. Her work could help revolutionise the information doctors are able to give people when diagnosing dementia, as well as how they deliver treatments.