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All the posts every put on our website. Blogs, Podcasts, Careers Support, News and all the good stuff that you wouldn’t want to miss. Only made possible thanks to funding from our amazing partners, NIHR, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society & Race Against Dementia.

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Wellcome Café Culture: reflections from research funders

23/03/2021

Wellcome Trust

Senior leaders from UK research funders get together to discuss research culture, using one of Wellcome’s Café Culture kits – hear what they think.

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Getting involved in Dementia Research as a Clinician

19/03/2021

Dementia Researcher

Dr Zoe Clough, Old Age Psychiatrist and Clinical Researcher makes the case for why & how NHS staff should become involved in dementia research.

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Tips from neuroscience to keep you focused on hard tasks

18/03/2021

Nature Careers Blog

Understanding cognitive control can help your academic and working life, says David Badre. in this blog shared from Nature Careers.

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Blog -Spinning Plates and Tomatoes

16/03/2021

Bethany McLoughlin

How to you practice self-care, a demanding workload and not become one of ‘those’ students? PhD Student Bethany McLoughlin may have the answer.

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Study for your Dementia Masters Online

15/03/2021

Dementia Researcher

The Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre share information on their flexible, fully online dementia postgraduate program.

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Podcast – Logopenic Progressive Aphasia and its characterisation

15/03/2021

Dementia Researcher

Dr Anna Volkmer talks with with Shalom Henderson and Dr Siddharth Ramanan discussing their work on Logopenic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia

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Useful & interesting podcasts which you may have missed

15/03/2021

Adam Smith

Adam Smith listens to a lot of podcasts, this month he once again shares his favourite new discoveries and what he has been listening to in the last month.

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COBALT Trial Funded by NIHR and NHMRC

14/03/2021

Dementia Researcher

New trial from the NIHR and NHMRC will assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of memantine in patients with dementia and Parkinson’s

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Profile – Shalom Henderson

12/03/2021

Dementia Researcher

PhD Student and Speech-Language Pathologist at University of Cambridge. Studying Semantic control in Primary Progressive Aphasia.

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Blog – So Your Experiment Failed

10/03/2021

Dr Sam Moxon

“Science doesn’t always work. A lot of experiments are deemed a failure at the first attempt.” Dr Sam Moxon talks about how he manages when things don’t work.

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Profile – Dr Siddharth Ramanan, University of Cambridge

10/03/2021

Dementia Researcher

Research Associate at University of Cambridge. Working to understanding dementia and developing accurate methods to better diagnose different dementia syndromes