Alzheimer’s

The UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) has today launched the next phase of its Celebrating UK Bioscience campaign to highlight the impact that the UK bioscience…

Neurology: Aerobic exercise and vascular cognitive impairment. A randomized controlled trial. A new interventional trial of exercise has shown a small but significant improvement in…

New research has highlighted a possible link between a prostate cancer treatment called androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and the risk of dementia. The findings are…

New research published today this week in the journal of Proceedings of the National Academy, holds potential to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The research shows how…

HARTLEPOOL United players Ben Dudzinski and Jordan Richards joined elderly residents from Queens Meadow Care Home for a charity sponsored walk. The footballers took time…

A team of researchers from the US has reported that women with early memory problems called mild cognitive impairment (MCI) show better verbal memory then…

New figures released today show the proportion of people dying with a diagnosis of dementia more than doubled in 13 years. According to reports published…

Staff and Partners at chartered accountants Price Bailey donned fancy dress and raised cash this week for the firm’s annual charity fun day in aid…

Dementia researchers based at The University of Nottingham have been awarded £13,000 of new funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK for state-of-the-art equipment that will help…

English teacher Peter Warr has been inspired to take on Alzheimer’s Research UK’s summer challenge, Running Down Dementia, after seeing his mum deteriorate from the…

Journal of Neuroscience: Youthful Brains in Older Adults: Preserved Neuroanatomy in the Default Mode and Salience Networks Contributes to Youthful Memory in Superaging Researchers from…

Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has welcomed an announcement that dementia research projects across the UK will receive £45m from the…

This month marks the start of World Alzheimer’s Month, the global campaign to raise awareness of dementia and tackle stigma worldwide. World Alzheimer’s Day is…

Alzheimer’s Research UK is calling for access to EU funding programmes to be made a priority in Brexit negotiations, as a poll of dementia scientists…

Researchers from the UK and Mexico have revealed the presence of strongly magnetic magnetite nanoparticles in the human brain, with some previous research linking these…