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Why are people with Down syndrome at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and how can brain imaging help us understand this process. What role do cerebrovascular changes play in the development of cognitive decline. In this session, Sara Zsadanyi will present her research exploring neuroimaging markers in Down syndrome related Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular focus on cerebrovascular lesions observed through brain imaging. Her work aims to improve understanding of how vascular changes may contribute to dementia risk and disease progression in this population. Sara is a PhD student at the Sant Pau Memory Unit and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, specialising in biomarkers and neuroimaging. Her research focuses on improving early detection and understanding of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome, combining imaging approaches with clinical research to better characterise disease pathways. Attendees can expect a clear and research focused talk followed by time for questions and discussion. -- Follow us on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Join our community: https://onelink.to/dementiaresearcher

Why are people with Down syndrome at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and how can brain imaging help us understand this process. What role do cerebrovascular changes play in the development of cognitive decline.

In this session, Sara Zsadanyi will present her research exploring neuroimaging markers in Down syndrome related Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular focus on cerebrovascular lesions observed through brain imaging. Her work aims to improve understanding of how vascular changes may contribute to dementia risk and disease progression in this population.

Sara is a PhD student at the Sant Pau Memory Unit and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, specialising in biomarkers and neuroimaging. Her research focuses on improving early detection and understanding of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome, combining imaging approaches with clinical research to better characterise disease pathways.

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Imaging Alzheimer’s Disease in Down Syndrome

Dementia Researcher 07/08/2026 11:01 am

Emma Williams and Sue Williams discuss their work. Emma and Sue have a job title that stops conversations. Public Advisor Researcher. They did not know what it meant when they applied, and two years on they are still explaining it to other people, including to public advisors who now think they have gone over to the other side. Both came to it through caring, Emma for her Mam who had frontotemporal dementia, Sue for her father and later for a close friend. Now they write topic guides, recruit participants, run interviews and work on the analysis, while still being carers themselves. In this blog they set out what the role actually involves, what it costs them, and what an early career researcher can do to make a Public Advisor Researcher useful rather than decorative. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-what-is-a-public-advisor-researcher/ -- Emma Williams and Sue Williams are Public Advisor Researchers at the University of Liverpool. Both came to dementia research through their personal experiences of supporting family members living with dementia and related conditions. They now use that lived experience alongside their growing research expertise to help shape dementia research, contributing to study design, recruitment, interviews and data analysis. Their work focuses particularly on ensuring the experiences of people affected by dementia are properly represented in research and in efforts to improve dementia care. https://bsky.app/profile/denpru-qm.bsky.social -- Leave us a Tip https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: • https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ • https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ • https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity • https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher • https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher

Emma Williams and Sue Williams discuss their work.

Emma and Sue have a job title that stops conversations. Public Advisor Researcher. They did not know what it meant when they applied, and two years on they are still explaining it to other people, including to public advisors who now think they have gone over to the other side. Both came to it through caring, Emma for her Mam who had frontotemporal dementia, Sue for her father and later for a close friend. Now they write topic guides, recruit participants, run interviews and work on the analysis, while still being carers themselves. In this blog they set out what the role actually involves, what it costs them, and what an early career researcher can do to make a Public Advisor Researcher useful rather than decorative.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-what-is-a-public-advisor-researcher/
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Emma Williams and Sue Williams are Public Advisor Researchers at the University of Liverpool. Both came to dementia research through their personal experiences of supporting family members living with dementia and related conditions. They now use that lived experience alongside their growing research expertise to help shape dementia research, contributing to study design, recruitment, interviews and data analysis. Their work focuses particularly on ensuring the experiences of people affected by dementia are properly represented in research and in efforts to improve dementia care.

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Emma & Sue Williams - A what? A Public Advisor Researcher? You may well ask…

Dementia Researcher 06/08/2026 10:05 am

Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. With her her viva date set and every working hour going into her thesis, Emily has also just returned to conference season for the first time since her maternity leave in 2023. At the International Psychogeriatric Association Congress in the Netherlands she gave an oral presentation on her conversation analytic study of advance care planning conversations between GPs, people with dementia, and their carers. In this blog she works through the layers of worry that came before it: pitching a niche method to a general audience, trusting the tech to play her video clips, presenting with poor eyesight that rules out speaker notes, and the dread of audience questions, all with her primary supervisor watching. What actually happened surprised her, and she explains why the experience has given her confidence for future talks and for defending her thesis. A good listen for anyone who has ever stood at a lectern convinced their work is too niche to interest anyone. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-overcoming-academic-conference-presentation-anxiety/ -- Emily Spencer is a PhD Student at University College London looking at improving how GPs communicate with people with dementia and their family carers about their future care. Emily previous had a 5 year career break to pursue a career as a musician, and has previously undertaken research on improving the care people with dementia receive from their GP practice, as well as end-of-life and palliative care provision in the community. Emily is also a new mum and will be writing about her experiences navigating motherhood and a research career. -- Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line. http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you by University College London in association with the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support. -- Leave us a Tip https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: • https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ • https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ • https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity • https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher • https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher

Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

With her her viva date set and every working hour going into her thesis, Emily has also just returned to conference season for the first time since her maternity leave in 2023. At the International Psychogeriatric Association Congress in the Netherlands she gave an oral presentation on her conversation analytic study of advance care planning conversations between GPs, people with dementia, and their carers. In this blog she works through the layers of worry that came before it: pitching a niche method to a general audience, trusting the tech to play her video clips, presenting with poor eyesight that rules out speaker notes, and the dread of audience questions, all with her primary supervisor watching. What actually happened surprised her, and she explains why the experience has given her confidence for future talks and for defending her thesis. A good listen for anyone who has ever stood at a lectern convinced their work is too niche to interest anyone.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-overcoming-academic-conference-presentation-anxiety/
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Emily Spencer is a PhD Student at University College London looking at improving how GPs communicate with people with dementia and their family carers about their future care. Emily previous had a 5 year career break to pursue a career as a musician, and has previously undertaken research on improving the care people with dementia receive from their GP practice, as well as end-of-life and palliative care provision in the community. Emily is also a new mum and will be writing about her experiences navigating motherhood and a research career.
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Emily Spencer - Overcoming Academic Conference Presentation Anxiety

Dementia Researcher 05/08/2026 12:06 pm

Dr Laura Pritschet gets asked about mummy brain almost daily, and her answer is neither "it's a myth" nor "it's decline". The subjective reports are real and consistent. The objective differences are slight and don't last. What's likely driving the experience is cognitive load — you're tracking feed times, sleep times, your own meals, your partner's, and maybe a return-to-work date. Increased demand, not diminished capacity. There's even evidence that period of load may be advantageous later on. From XXplored: Women's Brain Health, where host Dr Laura Stankeviciute talks to Dr Laura Pritschet (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Magdalena Martínez-García (Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara) about the neuroscience of matrescence. The full episode covers the hormonal cascade of pregnancy, what grey matter reductions really mean, and what pregnancy might mean for dementia risk decades later. Watch or listen to the full episode. #babybrain #matrescence #postpartum #womensbrainhealth #neuroscience #dementiaresearcher

Dr Laura Pritschet gets asked about mummy brain almost daily, and her answer is neither "it's a myth" nor "it's decline". The subjective reports are real and consistent. The objective differences are slight and don't last. What's likely driving the experience is cognitive load — you're tracking feed times, sleep times, your own meals, your partner's, and maybe a return-to-work date. Increased demand, not diminished capacity. There's even evidence that period of load may be advantageous later on.

From XXplored: Women's Brain Health, where host Dr Laura Stankeviciute talks to Dr Laura Pritschet (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Magdalena Martínez-García (Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara) about the neuroscience of matrescence. The full episode covers the hormonal cascade of pregnancy, what grey matter reductions really mean, and what pregnancy might mean for dementia risk decades later.

Watch or listen to the full episode.

#babybrain #matrescence #postpartum #womensbrainhealth #neuroscience #dementiaresearcher

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Is Baby Brain Real? A Neuroscientist Answers

Dementia Researcher 04/08/2026 9:46 pm

A menstrual cycle brings roughly a twelvefold rise in oestrogen and an eightyfold rise in progesterone. Pregnancy brings surges into the hundreds and thousandfold. Dr Laura Pritschet walks through the whole arc — the climb to a third trimester peak, the oxytocin surge at delivery, and the steepest hormonal drop of a woman's life in the days after birth. Her point at the end matters: sex hormones are neuromodulators, so a rise on that scale is always going to shape the brain. From XXplored: Women's Brain Health, where host Dr Laura Stankeviciute talks to Dr Laura Pritschet (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Magdalena Martínez-García (Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara) about the neuroscience of matrescence. The full episode covers what grey matter reductions really mean, whether baby brain is real, and what pregnancy might mean for dementia risk decades later. Watch or listen to the full episode #matrescence #pregnancy #hormones #womensbrainhealth #neuroscience #dementiaresearcher

A menstrual cycle brings roughly a twelvefold rise in oestrogen and an eightyfold rise in progesterone. Pregnancy brings surges into the hundreds and thousandfold. Dr Laura Pritschet walks through the whole arc — the climb to a third trimester peak, the oxytocin surge at delivery, and the steepest hormonal drop of a woman's life in the days after birth. Her point at the end matters: sex hormones are neuromodulators, so a rise on that scale is always going to shape the brain.

From XXplored: Women's Brain Health, where host Dr Laura Stankeviciute talks to Dr Laura Pritschet (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Magdalena Martínez-García (Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara) about the neuroscience of matrescence. The full episode covers what grey matter reductions really mean, whether baby brain is real, and what pregnancy might mean for dementia risk decades later.

Watch or listen to the full episode

#matrescence #pregnancy #hormones #womensbrainhealth #neuroscience #dementiaresearcher

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The Hormonal Storm Of Pregnancy, Explained

Dementia Researcher 04/08/2026 9:38 am

Oxytocin gets called the love hormone, which undersells it. Dr Magdalena Martínez-García explains what it actually does across pregnancy and birth: switching on the maternal behaviour circuit in the brain, driving uterine contractions, and triggering milk letdown after delivery. From XXplored: Women's Brain Health, where host Dr Laura Stankeviciute talks to Dr Magdalena Martínez-García (Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara) and Dr Laura Pritschet (University of Pennsylvania) about the neuroscience of matrescence. The full episode covers what grey matter reductions really mean, whether baby brain is real, and what pregnancy might do to dementia risk decades later. Watch or listen to the full episode #matrescence #oxytocin #womensbrainhealth #neuroscience #pregnancy #dementiaresearcher

Oxytocin gets called the love hormone, which undersells it. Dr Magdalena Martínez-García explains what it actually does across pregnancy and birth: switching on the maternal behaviour circuit in the brain, driving uterine contractions, and triggering milk letdown after delivery.

From XXplored: Women's Brain Health, where host Dr Laura Stankeviciute talks to Dr Magdalena Martínez-García (Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, UC Santa Barbara) and Dr Laura Pritschet (University of Pennsylvania) about the neuroscience of matrescence. The full episode covers what grey matter reductions really mean, whether baby brain is real, and what pregnancy might do to dementia risk decades later.

Watch or listen to the full episode

#matrescence #oxytocin #womensbrainhealth #neuroscience #pregnancy #dementiaresearcher

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Oxytocin Does More Than You Think

Dementia Researcher 03/08/2026 11:46 am

Adam Smith narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. Publishing the paper is not the finish line, it is where the work of being read actually starts. Adam looks at what happens to research once it lands in a journal, why some of it gets noticed and a lot of it does not, and what researchers can do about that without turning themselves into a personal brand. There are some uncomfortable observations along the way about conference talks, LinkedIn, and the phrase "raising awareness", plus a couple of figures from Dementia Researcher's own channels that even he cannot fully explain. If you have ever wondered whether time spent talking about your work is time stolen from doing it, this one is worth ten minutes. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-good-research-still-needs-an-audience/ -- Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director for Dementia Researcjer at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including this website, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. In his spare time he spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house. -- Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line. http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you by University College London in association with the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support. -- Leave us a Tip https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: • https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ • https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ • https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity • https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher • https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher

Adam Smith narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Publishing the paper is not the finish line, it is where the work of being read actually starts. Adam looks at what happens to research once it lands in a journal, why some of it gets noticed and a lot of it does not, and what researchers can do about that without turning themselves into a personal brand. There are some uncomfortable observations along the way about conference talks, LinkedIn, and the phrase "raising awareness", plus a couple of figures from Dementia Researcher's own channels that even he cannot fully explain. If you have ever wondered whether time spent talking about your work is time stolen from doing it, this one is worth ten minutes.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-good-research-still-needs-an-audience/
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Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director for Dementia Researcjer at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including this website, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. In his spare time he spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house.
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Adam Smith - Good Research Still Needs an Audience

Dementia Researcher 31/07/2026 11:44 pm

Around 80% of women worldwide will become mothers, and pregnancy triggers the largest hormonal shift the body will ever experience. So what does it do to the brain, and does any of it last? In this episode of XXplored, host Dr Laura Stankeviciute, University of Gothenburg is joined by Dr Magdalena Martínez-García, Scientific Director of Maternal Health at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, University of California Santa Barbara, and Dr Laura Pritschet, an NIH funded postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania who leads the Maternal Brain Mapping Project. They get into the hormonal cascade that drives the whole process, what those widely reported grey matter reductions actually mean, and how one volunteer scanned 26 times from IVF to two years postpartum filled in the gap between before and after. They also take on baby brain, whether repeat pregnancies stack up in the brain, what the UK Biobank data hints at for later life dementia risk, the near total absence of miscarriage and stillbirth from this research, and where postpartum care falls short. Both guests are living through matrescence themselves while studying it, and they talk openly about what that has been like. Key takeaways - Pregnancy brings hormone surges into the hundreds and thousandfold, far beyond anything seen across the menstrual cycle, and sensitivity to those shifts matters more than the absolute levels. - Grey matter reductions across pregnancy are among the most replicable findings in neuroscience, and larger reductions are linked to stronger postpartum bonding rather than damage. - Follow-up work found some of those changes still present six years after birth, suggesting they may be long lasting or permanent. - A second pregnancy produces the same pattern of change but less pronounced, and UK Biobank data suggests a trace of parity in the brain that levels off around four or five births. - Baby brain gets reframed rather than dismissed: subjective reports are real, objective differences are slight and temporary, and increased cognitive load may carry later advantages. - Miscarriage, stillbirth and abortion are almost entirely missing from maternal brain research, and both guests believe those women would be among the most motivated participants. - Research now treats the perinatal period as a neurological transition, but healthcare has not caught up, with a single six week check standing in for what should be ongoing postpartum care. - Follow us on social media: https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher https://www.bsky.app/profile/dementiare…archer.bsky.social -- Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher Leave us a tip: https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support -- Chapters 00:00 Welcome and why matrescence matters 02:48 Meet the guests 07:28 The hormones of pregnancy and postpartum 14:27 What grey matter reductions really mean 22:11 One brain, 26 scans 27:15 Miscarriage, stillbirth and the missing research 31:21 Fathers, partners and other caregivers 34:19 Is baby brain real? 42:32 Parity, later life and dementia risk 47:20 Two neuroscientists on their own experience 55:38 Postpartum care and what needs to change 01:02:43 What women's brain health means to us

Around 80% of women worldwide will become mothers, and pregnancy triggers the largest hormonal shift the body will ever experience. So what does it do to the brain, and does any of it last?

In this episode of XXplored, host Dr Laura Stankeviciute, University of Gothenburg is joined by Dr Magdalena Martínez-García, Scientific Director of Maternal Health at the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, University of California Santa Barbara, and Dr Laura Pritschet, an NIH funded postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania who leads the Maternal Brain Mapping Project.

They get into the hormonal cascade that drives the whole process, what those widely reported grey matter reductions actually mean, and how one volunteer scanned 26 times from IVF to two years postpartum filled in the gap between before and after. They also take on baby brain, whether repeat pregnancies stack up in the brain, what the UK Biobank data hints at for later life dementia risk, the near total absence of miscarriage and stillbirth from this research, and where postpartum care falls short. Both guests are living through matrescence themselves while studying it, and they talk openly about what that has been like.

Key takeaways

- Pregnancy brings hormone surges into the hundreds and thousandfold, far beyond anything seen across the menstrual cycle, and sensitivity to those shifts matters more than the absolute levels.
- Grey matter reductions across pregnancy are among the most replicable findings in neuroscience, and larger reductions are linked to stronger postpartum bonding rather than damage.
- Follow-up work found some of those changes still present six years after birth, suggesting they may be long lasting or permanent.
- A second pregnancy produces the same pattern of change but less pronounced, and UK Biobank data suggests a trace of parity in the brain that levels off around four or five births.
- Baby brain gets reframed rather than dismissed: subjective reports are real, objective differences are slight and temporary, and increased cognitive load may carry later advantages.
- Miscarriage, stillbirth and abortion are almost entirely missing from maternal brain research, and both guests believe those women would be among the most motivated participants.
- Research now treats the perinatal period as a neurological transition, but healthcare has not caught up, with a single six week check standing in for what should be ongoing postpartum care.
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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and why matrescence matters
02:48 Meet the guests
07:28 The hormones of pregnancy and postpartum
14:27 What grey matter reductions really mean
22:11 One brain, 26 scans
27:15 Miscarriage, stillbirth and the missing research
31:21 Fathers, partners and other caregivers
34:19 Is baby brain real?
42:32 Parity, later life and dementia risk
47:20 Two neuroscientists on their own experience
55:38 Postpartum care and what needs to change
01:02:43 What women's brain health means to us

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XXplored - The Neuroscience of Motherhood

Dementia Researcher 31/07/2026 12:00 pm

Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. Do we actually need to teach Gen Z differently, or do they just need to grow up a bit? Yvonne read a Times Higher Ed article that annoyed her enough to annoy several colleagues with it, and this blog is what came out. She is not convinced by shorter lectures with cliffhangers. She is much more interested in what happens when you hand third years a hypothetical million pounds and ask them what they would do with it. Along the way she tests one of her own essay questions on ChatGPT, and finds the gap that matters. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-pedagogy-for-gen-z/ -- Dr Yvonne Couch is a Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Yvonne studies the role of extracellular vesicles and their role in changing the function of the vasculature after stroke, aiming to discover why the prevalence of dementia after stroke is three times higher than the average. It is her passion for problem solving and love of science that drives her, in advancing our knowledge of disease. Yvonne writes about her work, academic life, and careers as she takes a new road into independent research. -- Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line. http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk This podcast is brought to you by University College London in association with the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support. -- Leave us a Tip https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support Follow us on social media: • https://www.instagram.com/dementia_researcher/ • https://www.facebook.com/Dementia.Researcher/ • https://www.twitter.com/demrescommunity • https://www.linkedin.com/company/dementia-researcher • https://bsky.app/profile/dementiaresearcher.bsky.social Download and Register with our Community App: https://www.onelink.to/dementiaresearcher

Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Do we actually need to teach Gen Z differently, or do they just need to grow up a bit? Yvonne read a Times Higher Ed article that annoyed her enough to annoy several colleagues with it, and this blog is what came out. She is not convinced by shorter lectures with cliffhangers. She is much more interested in what happens when you hand third years a hypothetical million pounds and ask them what they would do with it. Along the way she tests one of her own essay questions on ChatGPT, and finds the gap that matters.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-pedagogy-for-gen-z/
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Dr Yvonne Couch is a Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Yvonne studies the role of extracellular vesicles and their role in changing the function of the vasculature after stroke, aiming to discover why the prevalence of dementia after stroke is three times higher than the average. It is her passion for problem solving and love of science that drives her, in advancing our knowledge of disease. Yvonne writes about her work, academic life, and careers as she takes a new road into independent research.
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Dr Lindsey Sinclair narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Is time invested in something really time wasted if you don't win? A comment overheard at a rowing regatta set Lindsey thinking about what sport has given her career in science, beyond callouses and a dodgy shoulder. A former school sport hater turned qualified coach, Lindsey maps the anatomy of a 2000m race onto the life of a research project, from crew selection to the final push for the line, and makes the case that some of the most useful research skills are learned nowhere near a lab. There's also a lovely rowing tradition at the finish that every scientist could borrow.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-what-sport-can-teach-science/

Dr Lindsey Sinclair is an Associate Professor and Clinical Academic in Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Southampton. Her research explores the relationship between depression and dementia, combining lab work with epidemiology and genetics. Clinically, she works with older adults experiencing a wide range of mental health problems. Outside of work, she’s a keen baker and runner, and has a particular talent for creating ambitious birthday cakes.

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