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Three Minute Thesis Competition Final 2022 - Nancy Brown

Individual Video - Three Minute Thesis Competition Final 2022 - Nancy Brown - Finalist

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Global discussion: Part 2

Craig is joined by friends from the STRiDE Project and Alzheimer’s Disease International to discuss challenges and opportunities for working together to promote action on brain health on a…

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Global discussion: Part 1

Craig is joined by friends from the STRiDE Project and Alzheimer’s Disease International to discuss challenges and opportunities for working together to promote action on brain health on a…

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Welcome to week 4

Craig introduces our topics for this final week of the course, including how important findings from research studies must now be translated into meaningful practice to improve clinical services…

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Harnessing big data

In this video Craig considers how we should manage these resources and, crucially, make sure we are asking the right questions of the data. If you download and reuse this video, please remember to…

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Developing better drugs

Here Craig describes how, if we also want to be able to detect problems with memory and thinking much earlier in the course of disease, we have to think about which parts of the brain are affected…

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Capturing cognition

Here Craig describes how, if we also want to be able to detect problems with memory and thinking much earlier in the course of disease, we have to think about which parts of the brain are affected…

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Whats it like to take part in research

We’re joined in this video by Malcolm, a research participant in the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) Programme, to reflect on his experiences of taking part in clinical…

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Going in early researching prevention

Craig introduces us to some large research programmes which follow people over time in a great level of detail to help improve our understanding of the earliest brain changes related to…

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Investigating biomarkers for neurodengenerative disease

Here we investigate the biomarkers currently used to aid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Craig takes us through some key features to look out for on a brain scan when assessing…

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Welcome to week 3

Craig introduces week three of the course. This week we turn our focus to clinical research, including how studying research cohorts can reveal the natural progression of disease and how clinical…

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Nutrition and health brain ageing future direction

We’ve considered the current knowledge base for nutrition and brain health. Next up Emma explores important areas of focus for research programmes to investigate going forwards. If you…

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Nutrition and brain ageing current evidence

How can what we eat day-to-day affect our health and our risk of brain diseases as we age? Here, Emma reviews the current knowledge base for the impact different dietary components and patterns have…

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Risk factors across the lifecourse

There is a complex interplay between various risk and protective factors for neurodegenerative disease throughout life. Here Craig describes how we must therefore take a lifecourse approach to…

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Welcome to week 2

Craig welcomes us back to week two of the course, where we’ll be investigating risk factors for the development of neurodegenerative disease. Including a detailed look at the role of diet and…

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Disease before Dementia

Craig describes here how researchers and clinicians are increasingly focussing in on this early, pre-symptom phase of disease as a window of opportunity for active intervention to slow the…

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