Health Awareness
Understanding Dementia 2020
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“The past became the present for my mum”
Actress, Shobna Gulati, well known for her roles in dinnerladies, Coronation Street, and Doctor Who, describes how she lost her mum to vascular dementia, and how we must work to break down stigma around it. Mum was the matriarch and lynchpin of the family. She was in control of her life, her home and, to...
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Caring for someone with dementia: Taking breaks is a necessity
The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on families, especially on our older relatives living with dementia and family members caring for them. The pandemic has been a stressful time for unpaid carers with the vast majority (70%) having to provide more care for the person they support. Though many COVID-19 restrictions have been...
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Analysing the link between inflammation and dementia
Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The efforts of the research community in the last decade have focused in targeting the cause of the disease (the presence of amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles) but the results have not been encouraging, probably because the disease has spread already in those patients and is...
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Stroke survivors twice as likely to be living with dementia
Stroke survivors are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with dementia than the general UK population, highlighting an urgent need for further research. Imagine the person you love slowly starts to forget things. At first, it might be small, like their housekeys or their shopping list. But then, they forget their address and,...
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How do Alzheimer’s risk factors change the brain?
Fundamental research at the University of Edinburgh is providing links between genes, lifestyle factors, and the brain changes that cause Alzheimer’s disease. Age, risk genes, and lifestyle factors like obesity and smoking are associated with increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Our group is working to understand how these risk factors change the brain. Risk...
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Dementia research in the face of COVID-19
As we rang in the New Year, few could have predicted just how tumultuous 2020 would turn out to be. But, nine months on, almost every walk of life has been impacted by COVID-19, causing global turmoil for billions. For scientists searching for life-changing dementia treatments, the pandemic has brought new ways of working –...
