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

Bump in the Road or Disaster? BACE Inhibitors Worsen Cognition

07/11/2018

Alz Forum

Merck shook the field with news that people on verubecestat scored worse than those on placebo – find out more in this post from AlzForum

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Podcast – Student Health and Wellbeing

05/11/2018

Dementia Researcher

Oz Ismail and guests discuss student health and wellbeing, sharing advice on stress, support, mental health, and staying well during research.

Partner Blogs

Pressing for Progress: Women in Dementia Research

01/11/2018

Dementia Researcher

How we can support women in science

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Profile – Dr Caroline Selai

01/11/2018

Dementia Researcher

UCL academic and practitioner psychologist, dancing away the stresses of the day.

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Help and resources for student health and wellbeing

01/11/2018

Dementia Researcher

In next weeks podcast our panel will be discussing ‘Student Health and Wellbeing’. All employers and academic institutions have an obligation to provide appropriate support, and in this post we…

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Profile – Géraldine Garrabet

31/10/2018

Dementia Researcher

Matching beats, and supporting students at the University of Manchester,

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Dementia Special Issue: Patient and Public Involvement in Dementia Research: Moving from Proving to Improving

30/10/2018

Dementia Researcher

Eight articles that report on the diverse methods and impact of PPI

Partner Blogs

Lessons learned through failure

30/10/2018

Dementia Researcher

If at first your don’t succeed, try try again. Inspiring blog from Olivia Maynard from the ESCR website.

Dissemination, Science

Across Time and Space: Machine Learning Reveals Paths to Dementia

26/10/2018

Alz Forum

Developing computational algorithms & machine-learning techniques, to transform cross-sectional imaging data to a longitudinal picture and reconstruct the sequence of disease progression.

Careers, Training

Since the early 1990s, the open access movement has promoted the concept of greater openness in relation to scientific research. It’s about making research more transparent, collaborative and efficient. There…