By Dr Claire Lancaster Fifty million people live with dementia worldwide, the most common cause of which is Alzheimer’s – a progressive, neurodegenerative disease. Although the past 12-months have seen Aducanumab expediated for FDA approval – the first new drug…
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Reducing patterns of brain hyperactivity in individuals at genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease: an important avenue for early-life risk reduction?
Tagged with: Alzheimer's, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, Dementia, Neuroscience
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
Alzheimer type dementia
by Prof Jennifer Rusted Age is not synonymous with poor health, but Alzheimer type dementia (AD) is a disease of the brain for which age is the biggest risk factor – the older you are, the greater your risk of…
Tagged with: Ageing, Alzheimer's, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience, Dementia
Posted in Faculty research
Posted in Faculty research
Do Changes in Emotion Regulation Affect Decision-Making in People with Alzheimer’s Disease?
by Dr Rotem Perach, Prof Jennifer Rusted, Prof Pete Harris, Dr Eleanor Miles Ever felt so excited that you found yourself telling your life story to a stranger? Or so anxious about something that you could think about little else?…
Tagged with: Alzheimer's, Decision-Making, Dementia, Emotion
Posted in Faculty research, Uncategorized
Posted in Faculty research, Uncategorized
Do bad blood vessels trigger dementia?
By Dr Catherine Hall Dementia affects increasing numbers of people as they age (one in 14 people over the age of 65 suffer from dementia). It changes how the brain functions, gradually stopping brain cells and brain connections from working so…
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