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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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Prioritising Retention in Randomised Trials survey

16/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

A new, important survey is now open across the UK and Ireland giving everyone a chance to submit their questions and comments about retention to randomised trials.

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Profile – Dr Christopher Madan, University of Nottginham

14/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Christopher Madan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, researching memory, ageing, and brain structure and function using MRI.

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Profile – Dr Suzanne Hill, University of Bradford

13/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Exploring Medication Management / Systems at Transition; Patient Safety and Quality of Care, Continuity of Care; Dementia.

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Profile – Dr Charlotte Stoner, University of Greenwich

13/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Greenwich and UCL alumni. Research interests in dementia, psychometrics and positive psychology

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Pushing dementia research through US-UK collaboration

12/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Learn about some of the ways the Medical Research Council is supporting UK and US collaborations

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Use of statins and the risk of dementia and mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis

12/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate whether the use of statins could be associated with the risk of all-caused dementia, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

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Profile – Dr Angelique Mavrodaris

11/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Public Health background and now working as a Clinical Research Fellow bringing skills to Dementia

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Dementia Matters Podcast from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre

11/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

A great podcast which aims to humanize Alzheimer’s disease, by speaking with the experts in their community keeping you informed on the latest headlines, research studies, and caregiver resources.

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News From the PET Front: Early Amyloid Networks and Tau Mystery

11/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

The advent of PET to image Alzheimer’s pathology in people has handed researchers new tools for staging disease during life, but PET also presents mysteries.

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The proportion of co-authored research articles has risen markedly in recent decades

09/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

The proportion of multi-authored papers in the social sciences has risen steadily over recent decades. But what are the reasons behind such a marked increase?

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A number of freely available tools can help you improve your literature review routine and stay on top of published research

06/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

A short sequence of steps and flagged a number of freely available online tools that will help researchers to easily integrate an effective literature review and discovery routine into their work lives.

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Effort Testing in Dementia Assessment: A Systematic Review.

03/04/2018

Dementia Researcher

Interpretation of neuropsychological test data is only valid when appropriate effort has been exerted