I had a great time presenting at our #QUB_SMDB_PGR today- loved hearing about the brilliant work going on within the QUB research centres 👩🏼‍🔬 QUB Public Health Ageing Research Forum (ARF) Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine QUB Critical Care & Respiratory Research Group

Our ISTAART Lewy Body Dementias PIA Twitter account is now live! Follow Lewy Body Dementias PIA for news and updates LBD, the PIA and #AAIC23.

‼️ We need to use the word 'delirium' for #delirium. 🚫 no more 'acute confusion', 'acute on chronic confusion', etc. ➡️ Only use 'acute encephalopathy' for the underlying pathology 📕 Key consensus article: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #WDAD2023 iDelirium

Nice and simple, eh? Delirium is complex, but assessment can be done by anyone (ANYONE!) Learn more on #WDAD2023 deliriumday.com American Delirium Society iDelirium European Delirium AustralasianDelirium #ADS23PVD

#AScarfForLewy is coming to Belfast! Join us on Tuesday 17th October... sarah travers Marie-Louise Connolly Brendan Hughes Freya McClements Catherine Smyth Seanín Graham Lesley-Anne McKeown Deborah McAleese Lisa Smyth

Towards the use of perioperative EEG as a real-time stress test for the aging brain- great working with so many leaders in the field on this- Lisbeth Claudio Babiloni Laura Bonanni Aoife Sweeney Catherine Price M. Brandon Westover Alzheimer's Association ISTAART link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Delighted to announce our new publication from the first meeting of the Delirium Subtyping Initiative in Milan last November! 🧠 doi.org/10.1002/alz.13… Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals Wiley

To raise awareness and show our support of Lewy Body Dementia, a scarf will be wrapped the whole way around the Waterfront Hall! We would love for you to get involved, come down to our venue on Tuesday 17 October, wearing your scarf to show your support bit.ly/3DCo7hC

✨GET INVOLVED: We are looking for people affected by Lewy body dementia to join our research advisory group. If this sounds interesting to you, we'd love to hear from you! First meeting at the Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, on Mon 4th September.

Are you in Northern Ireland and living with Lewy body dementia (LBD)? Are you a care partner to someone living with LBD? Please contact Sinéad to discuss joining our Research Advisory Group 👇

I submitted my PhD thesis today! Big thank you to my brilliant supervisors Emma Cunningham, Danny McAuley and Prof Cardwell QUB Public Health and Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine. Bring on the viva! Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Ageing Research Forum (ARF) QUB Critical Care & Respiratory Research Group

We are wrapping the @BelWaterfront with a #ScarfForLewy. Be part of this inspiring event on Tuesday 17th October, 10:00am. Together, we can make a difference! 💚✨ @belfastlive @BElTel BBC Northern Ireland ...

Great day at the DRNI’s ECR event hearing all about dementia research happening across Ireland. Thank you to all the organisers and for the opportunity to present some of my ongoing work into the treatment preferences of those affected by dementia with Lewy bodies Dementia Research Network Ireland

NEW SYSTEMATIC REVIEW! 🧠 Delighted to see our systematic review published in Age_and_Ageing. We investigated individual symptoms of delirium reported in studies of postoperative populations 🏥 Read it here: academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

4,367 abstracts/titles screened 🧐 694 full text reviews 📄 62 studies included 👍 11,377 patients 🧍‍♀️ 2,049 patients with delirium 🧠 78 differently described delirium symptoms 😮 = Notable heterogeneity and lack of standardisation!

Thanks British Geriatrics Society for invite to speak #promedEx trial at #BGSConf spring meeting today. Great to feature in the nutrition and dementia session and delighted to highlight our newly published Supplement on nutrition and healthy ageing Age_and_Ageing Colin McClure IGFS QUB Public Health

📢 CPH is pleased to invite all to attend a seminar with Professor Cathal McCrory, titled "Examining The Impact of Life Course Socioeconomic Position on Cognitive Function and Brain Structure in Healthy Ageing". 📅 Thursday 30th May ⏰ 1pm 📍 ICSA 0G.007 (Also on MS Teams)

Huge congratulations to final year Human Biology student Izzy presenting her dissertation research - ‘Clinical phenotype and epidemiology of delirium-onset dementia with Lewy bodies - a scoping review’ British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting in Birmingham today! Joe Kane QUB Public Health 🌟🌟🌟

Well done Izzy - great to see your hard work pay off. Great supervison and support from Aoife Sweeney too! QUB Public Health

Do you play a contact sport (e.g. rugby, football) or have you played one in the past? Are you aged 18-39? If so, we would love to hear your thoughts on brain health! Involvement would be a one hour online focus group with a £20 voucher for your time @DementiaHealth #BrainHealth