🤝 Great to meet Kate Lee and other leaders from across the sector at The Geller Commission’s event to launch #DementiaActionWeek. 📝 Whether on diagnosis, research, or access to care, there’s some real challenges, but ones the next Labour government will tackle head on.

Congratulations Naomi Launders on being awarded a Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) #Fellowship to explore 'Health Inequalities in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in People with Severe or Complex Mental Illness'

New Understanding Society blog by Annie Jeffery on research into recent immigration policy and ‘Windrush scandal’ media coverage increased Black people’s psychological distress buff.ly/4dF4zdc

Interesting and broad briefing note including considering inequalities. hospital care and START Naaheed Mukadam Andrew Sommerlad

Interested in working with neuroimaging and normative modelling in #FTLD? Look no further! RA post available with me at DRC@UCL and James Cole UCL CMIC funded by Research at ARUK. Please RT and do get in touch if interested! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

This is an exciting new post working across clinical trials and other research into young onset dementias, joining a world class team in early phase novel therapies in AD and FTD. Get in touch if you’re interested!

I’m honoured & delighted to be taking up my new role as Chair of the World Federation of Neurology Aphasia, Dementia & Cognitive Disorders speciality group World Federation of Neurology (WFN). Thank you Suvarna Alladi 4 the legacy & Poppy Tombs (Danby) UCL Brain Sciences 4 the coverage. ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Paper out now and open access: NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) CRIS study showing that people with MCI and loneliness or relationship problems had a higher risk of being diagnosed with dementia later. A potentially modifiable target for intervention at the MCI stage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DJVT436K…

Our open access paper on adult education and #dementia is out now, Andrew Sommerlad UCL Brain Sciences UCL Psychiatry Adult education associated with lower #risk of dementia and higher hippocampus volume link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our systematic review of instruments to assess social connection for long‐term care home residents published today alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New research led by Naaheed Mukadam (UCL Psychiatry) suggests that public health interventions such as reducing sugar/salt intake, improving air quality & making bike helmets compulsory for children could save £4bn in England by lowering dementia risk. bit.ly/3yyI7CE

Earlier this month The Lancet Commission led by Prof Gill Livingston (UCL Psychiatry) found that nearly half of #dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 modifiable health & lifestyle factors through our lives: bit.ly/4fkUwuy

Social participation and risk of developing #dementia nature.com/articles/s4358… by Andrew Sommerlad Gill Livingston Mika Kivimaki Epi of Ageing Susanne Röhr and others UCL Psychiatry via Nature Aging nature #Alzheimers #mentalhealth #health #publichealth

Alzheimer's Society has published new evidence that focuses on dementia’s impact on the healthcare system and the cost effectiveness of early diagnosis and treatment. Watch the animation below showing the saving opportunities for dementia 👇:

Our new paper examining the content of existing measures of social connection for care home residents, led by Madalena Liougas. We itemised each item in 31 measures, providing a detailed inventory of the content of these to clarify what aspect of social connection they measure.

This study complements our review of the psychometric properties of social connection measures here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… And clarifies the need for new valid measure assessing specific domains of social connection... More to come from SONNET Study UCL Psychiatry KITE Research Institute

Our study explores how sociodemographic factors impact dementia diagnosis rates (DDR) in England. With Naaheed Mukadam Kathy Liu & Jeremy Isaacs tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our recent systematic review exploring the effects of sleep duration on the risk of dementia incidence according to short and long follow-up studies. In collaboration with Gill Livingston and Naaheed Mukadam sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨 Delighted to announce that our article "Cognitive Rehabilitation for Posterior Cortical Atrophy" is out 🚨: pn.bmj.com/content/early/… Immensely grateful to my co-authors for their expertise & passion & Practical Neurology for supporting its publication UCL Brain Sciences INS