Great to announce that teams UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Dementias Platform UK have both been awarded the Blood Biomarker Challenge. The UCL team will test the diagnostic utility of ptau217 for Alzheimer’s in @NHS memory clinics
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Great to hear Dr Cath Mummery🍊 talk to Fergus Walsh about new #Alzheimer 's drugs lecanemab and donanemab in BBC Panorama's Alzheimer’s: A Turning Point, and to hear patient experiences.

Watch it here ⬇️

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ICYMI: 'For the first time, we've got drugs that show that you can alter the course of Alzheimer's disease, and that's an extraordinary thing' Dr Cath Mummery🍊 DRC@UCL discusses the potential impact of new #Alzheimers treatments.

📺Watch on BBC Panorama bbc.in/48vJgqR

Our paper on iatrogenic #alzheimerdisease out today Nature Medicine Detailed summary & links below. TLDR: 5 tragic cases resulting from a very rare medical procedure stopped in 1985. No risk of person to person spread; hopefully will provide major insights into Alzheimer biology

We are pleased to have been able to contribute to this largest ever international study of PCA posterior cortical atrophy RareDementiaSupport Keir Yong Jonathan Schott thelancet.com/journals/laneu…

Dr Cath Mummery🍊 (@UCLIoN), head of clinical trials at the DRC@UCL, has been announced as the Director of a new network of #dementia trial sites across the country.

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Out today and *open access* — our large international study of posterior cortical atrophy — a distinctive syndrome almost always due to Alzheimer’s The Lancet Neurology UCSF MAC Mayo Clinic UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL Brain Sciences Alzheimer's Association Alzheimercentrum Amsterdam thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

It was wonderful to welcome Steve Jamieson CEO of RCSLT 💙 to observe the role of #SLT in the dementia cognitive disorders clinic today NHNN Therapy & Rehabilitation DRC@UCL - thanks for coming!!!!

I am so honoured to have been able to nominate Jason Warren of the Brain Behaviour Group DRC@UCL RareDementiaSupport for this RCSLT 💙 honorary fellowship! He has always advocated 4 the needs of people with #PPA & the role of #SLT & I personally am so grateful for his ongoing mentorship.

The program for the Research at ARUK Alzheimer's Research UK Clinical Conference 2023 is now confirmed. Book your place today, and join us on Friday 10th November in London alzheimers.eventsair.com/clinical-confe…

Latest from the Insight 46 team *open access* @BrainComms — normal appearing white matter is not always normal … academic.oup.com/braincomms/art… Dr Sarah-Naomi James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dr Jo Barnes UCL Brain Sciences MRC LHA @ UCL DRC@UCL Research at ARUK Alzheimer's Association

Excellent presentation by Dave Cash showing amyloid and tau PET data from our MRC LHA @ UCL Insight 46 data led by Will Coath and funded by Marc Zacher Alzheimer's Association Research at ARUK

What do we need to do to prepare health systems (and NHS England in particular) for emerging new therapies for Alzheimer’s? Timed to coincide with #AAIC2023 — my view with Chris Belder and Nick Fox now out in The Lancet Neurology thelancet.com/journals/laneu… Alzheimer's Research UK UCL News

Congratulations to Jonathan Schott, the recipient of the #AAIC23 Bill Thies Award for Distinguished Service to ISTAART. This award recognizes a member who has provided outstanding service to the ISTAART community.

A new pair of information booklets, co-produced with people with Parkinson’s and healthcare professionals, open up discussions about Parkinson's dementia.

Launched today by Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Parkinson's UK & Central Saint Martins from the #PatternsofPerceptionPD team

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📅27 Apr 2pm Preparing for Disease Modifying Therapies for Dementia: implications for research, trials & clinical services UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology 🟧 Hilary Evans 🟧 Kate Lee Jonathan Schott Cath Mummery🍊 Gill Livingston @RabLab_UCSF Jonathan Graff-Radford great programme & speakers

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My take on Lecanemab — how we got here, what we know, what it might mean for the NHS, and why more research in dementia is needed ⁦Alzheimer's Research UK⁩ ⁦The Guardian⁩ ⁦UK Dementia Research Institute⁩ ⁦UCL News⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our director Nick Fox and Jonathan Schott commenting on the exciting news about Lecanemab this morning The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2022/n…

What can a birth cohort tell us about Alzheimer’s disease? Read about our work on the MRC LHA @ UCL in the The Conversation UCL News Alzheimer's Research UK Research at ARUK UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology theconversation.com/weve-been-stud…

Congratulations to our Director!