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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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Catch-up – Adapting the Australian Environmental Assessment Tool by Joanna Sun

28/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

Joanna Sun from the University of Wollongong talks about adapting the Australian Environmental Assessment Tool for persons with dementia in Singapore.

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Blog – Researching Dental Care in Dementia

27/05/2020

Andrew Geddis-Regan

Andrew Geddis-Regan writes about his NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship work to improve decision making and dental care for people living with dementia.

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Profile – Andrew Geddis-Regan

26/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

Base player, parent and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and Senior Dental Officer working in the North East to improve Dental Care Decision Making in Dementia.

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Meta-Research: Dataset decay and the problem of sequential analyses on open datasets

26/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

One of the benefits of open data is that it allows multiple perspectives to approach a question, but whats the trade-off?

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Podcast – The concept of a Cognitive Footprint

25/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

Piers Kotting talks to Professor Martin Rossor and Professor Parashkev Nachev from UCL, discussing their work on the principle of a Cognitive Footprint.

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Profile – Professor Parashkev Nachev

22/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

Professor of Neurology at UCL, undertaking computational modelling of the human brain and creating art as a way of conveying ideas about our biological nature.

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SDRC COVID-19 Impact Report

21/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

SDRC recently surveyed Scottish dementia researchers to understand how COVID-19 has affected their research. Find out what researchers had to say.

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Profile – Professor Martin Rossor

21/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

Part of the original MRC project that identified the APP gene mutation as the first cause of familial Alzheimer’s disease.

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Catch-up – Microglia a double edged sword – Dr Tom Phillips

20/05/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Tom Phillips talks about microglia’s role in dementia, how that role moves between protection & damaging and how new genetic findings point to new therapies

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Improving training & research quality at their institutions

20/05/2020

eLife

eLIFE, their speakers discussed how you can inspire a change in culture at your institution, improve research quality and influence good research practices.