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Microglia cells in action

Movie showing microglial cells generated from stem cells can gobble up fluorescent beads ‘in a dish’. Related to Banerjee et al, Science Advances,…

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4. Dementia Prevention: a global approach 2020

Dementia is the world’s most pressing healthcare challenge. In our final lecture we explore how large data sets can inform healthcare policy and how powerful statistics, computer modelling and…

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3. Developing Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases 2020

Our third lecture focuses on the new ways we can look to treat brain disease before dementia. From drug trials to lifestyle interventions, fundamental laboratory science to studying large at-risk…

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1. What is neurodegenerative disease? (2020 series)

Our first lecture introduces the brain diseases which cause dementia. We explore the biology behind these diseases, how we can use the latest scientific techniques to study them and promising new…

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3. Treatments for Neurodegenerative Disease

Treatments for Neurodegenerative DiseaseIn our third lecture, Prof. Craig Ritchie and Dr Tom Russ discusses prevention and non-pharmacological approaches to the treatment of dementia, as well as…

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2. What is Neurodegenerative Disease? (part 2)

What is Neurodegenerative Disease? Part 2In our second lecture, Prof. Tara Spires-Jones, Prof Karen Ritchie and Prof Adam Waldman will discuss the biology of neurodegenerative disease and dementia,…

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ECAS Demonstration Video

This video provides guidance on the administration of the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS). The ECAS is a brief multidomain assessment originally designed for people with…

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CARE-MND research project: Tracey Millar

Senior Research Nurse Tracey Millar describes the Medical Research Council-funded brain bank, for people with MND in Scotland who wish to donate brain and spinal cord tissue after death.

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Javier Escudero: Biosignal processing

In this video Javier describes his research in the processing of biomedical time series to tackle clinical problems; particularly understanding how the brain activity changes with ageing and…

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