News & Features

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.

Dissemination, Science

Nature – Focus on neurodegenerative diseases

07/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Nature Neuroscience presents a collection of Reviews on recent advances in neurodegenerative disease, highlighting shared mechanisms across diseases and the gaps in our knowledge that still need to be addressed.

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Profile – Ellen Jones

07/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Ellen Jones is a Lived Experience Research Advisor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, drawing on her family caring experience to help improve dementia care

Dissemination, Funding

Landmark funding to transform early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and other dementias

07/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Blog by Hilary Evans, Chief Executive of Alzheimer’s Research UK welcoming a game-changing announcement for dementia research – a government-led boost of up to £79m for research into the early detection of diseases.

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Profile – Dr Stephanie Daley

06/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

New cat owner (collecting cat related mugs, bags and coasters) funded by Health Education England and based at Brighton and Sussex Medical School researching Dementia education, quality of life and quality of care

Dissemination

Tracking the landscape of dementia research and resources

06/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

In this blog Charlene Liggins from the US National Institute on Ageing discusses the IADRP and its work to compile funded research projects and resources from more than 40 public and private organisations in over 10 countries

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Basics of how to write about research methods in the social sciences

05/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Patrick Brindle looks at the task in practical terms and examines the different writing challenges that face PhD students writing a methodology chapter

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Profile – Gina Sherlock

05/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Grew up with Helen and Danny (but not on Ramsey Street) working as a Research Assistant on the Time for Dementia Project at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Dissemination

The Genomics of Neurons. And Alzheimer’s. And Everything Else.

04/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Derek Lowe’s commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry. An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine.

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Blog – Leaping Across the Pond

03/12/2018

Dementia Researcher

Guest Blog from Dr Robert Andrew, Post-doctoral Researcher at The University of Chicago – sharing his story of how he went from UK to the USA, with advise for others who may want to follow.