Completed projects
Project grants
- Aromatherapy for people with dementia
Lead Investigator: Professor Alistair Burns & Professor Elaine Perry
Institution: Universities of Manchester & Newcastle
- Assessing fitness to drive in people with dementia
Lead Investigator: Professor Nadina Lincoln
Institution: University of Nottingham
- Dr Z Nagy and Dr R McShane
Impaired odour detection as a means of identifying alpha-synuclein (Lewy body) pathology in life - Dr DM McLoughlin and Professor CJ Miller
Behavioural and functional analyses of the X11 proteins in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease - Dr Mukaetova-Ladinska
Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular dementia by measuring proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and blood - Dr Clive Holmes and Professor H Perry
Systemic inflammation and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease - Fiona Cowdell
Dementia care in acute hospitals - Professor Robert Howard
Managing behavioural symptoms without use of tranquillisers - Dr Linda Clare
Functional and anatomical mechanisms underlying the effects of cognitive rehabilitation in early-stage Alzheimer's disease: implications for intervention - Professor C Peers and Dr A Pearson
An investigation of the mechanisms by which hypoxia promotes the onset of Alzheimer's disease - Dr Sarah Aldred
Investigation of the relationship between dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate and plasma protein oxidation in Alzheimer's disease - Dr James Warner with Dr Peter Fisher and Dr Rob McCarney
DIGGER: Dementia in General Practice, the Ginkgo extract research trial - Professor A Burns and Professor McCollum
Cerebral emboli in Alzheimer's and vascular dementia - Dr John Gallacher
The pattern and causes of asymptomatic cognitive decline leading to dementia - Dr Kieran Breen
The role of oxidative stress in the progression of Alzheimer's disease pathology - Dr Emma Kidd
Inhibitory antibodies as therapeutic tools for Alzheimer's disease - Professor Brian Austen
The effects of cholesterol and statins on -secretase, an enzyme that gives rise to the death of neurones in Alzheimer's disease - Dr David Allsop
A novel method for the study of amyloid beta-peptide aggregation and its link with Alzheimer's disease - Professor Tony Hope
Carers' views of ethical issues in dementia care - Dr Roy Jones
Development of a disease-specific, patient-administered measure of quality of life for people with dementia - Dr Anthony Passmore
Genetic determinants of non-cognitive symptomatology in Alzheimer's disease - Dr Lesley Jones
Analysis of positional candidate genes in Alzheimer's disease - Professor Murna Downs
Dementia: Diagnosis and management in primary care - Shirley Nurock
A qualitative study to explore reasons for the stress in long-term care settings - Jan Dewing
Effectiveness of drugs for dementia - Dr Robert Clarke
Meta-analysis of longitudinal studies of patients with dementia - Dr Chris Oliver and Dr Tony Holland
The service needs of people with Down's Syndrome who develop Alzheimer's disease - Professor RCA Pearson
To investigate the beta-amyloid precursor protein gene in the brain in response to injury or disease - Dr Andrew Miller
IL-IRA analogues as a cure for Alzheimer's disease and structural studies of beta-amyloid precursor protein following head trauma - Dr Robin Morris
Conducting research into alleviating stress on carers - Dr Michael Mullan
Defining the phenotype in Chromosome 21 encoded Alzheimer's disease - Dr Carole Brayne
An epidemiological study of dementia and cognitive impairment in elderly women - Professor Gordon Wilcock
Setting up costs for a pilot brain bank scheme
Fellowship grants
- Dr Desmond Walsh with Dr Ling Sun Jen and Dr Stephen Gentleman
Neural stem cells and replacement of lost neurons in experimental models of neurodegeneration - Dr Joanna Collingwood
Examining the role of anomalous iron concentrations in Alzheimer's disease, and their implications for early detection and diagnosis - Dr Jonathan Schott
Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy in Alzheimer's disease: cross-sectional and longitudinal diagnostic approaches - Dr Amritpal Mudher
Modelling tauopathies in drosophilla; the functional consequences of aggregation and hyperphosphorylation - Dr Michelle Utton
Mechanisms of axonal transport of the microtubule-associated protein tau - Dr Ritchie Williamson
Mechanisms of A nerve cell death - Dr Louise Allan
What causes neurocardiovascular instability in dementia and how can it be treated? - Ms Lynne Corner
Quality of life - self assessment - Miss Jayne Freeman
Activation and deactivation of delayed intentions - Dr Richard Harvey
The burden of frontotemporal dementia - Dr Georgina Charlesworth
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in carer depression - Dr Janet Johnstone
A peptide enzyme activities - Ms Andrea Tales
Attentional mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease - Dr Christine Coughlan
The role of soluble amyloid precursor protein - Dr Jayne Arnold
26S proteosomes and 14-3-3 proteins - Dr Fiona Shaw
Fall prevention in dementia - Dr Diane Hanger
An investigation into the expression and metabolism of neurofilaments in dementia with Lewy bodies - Miss Catherine Donaldson
Cognitive behavioral intervention for reducing psychological morbidity - Dr Peter Estebiero
The amyloid precursor protein (APP) in learning and memory: a molecular approach based on gene knockout - Dr Paul Holden
Human nerve growth factors and Alzheimer's disease - Dr Declan McLoughlin
Identification and study of proteins interacting with the Alzheimer's disease Amyloid Precursor Protein - Dr Nick Fox
MRI in Alzheimer's disease - Dr Geraldine Lally
Transgenic mice as models of Alzheimer's disease - focus on calcium binding proteins as targets - Dr Marcus Richards
The epidemiology of dementia in UK dwelling Afro-Carribeans: A pilot study - Dr Christine Davies
The role of glial cells in amyloid plaque formation - Dr Steven Gentleman
Alzheimer's disease and the pathophysiology of the acute phase response: A potential therapeutic target
PhD studentships
- Dr David Mann
Cerebral Amyloidosis, Ageing and Alzheimer's disease - Dr John Hardy
Physical mapping of the proximal long arm of chromosome 21 in early onset familial Alzheimer's disease
Dissemination grants
Cochrane Review
- Christopher Edwards
The use of validated rating scales as an intervention for behavioural problems in dementia - Professor Sir John Grimley Evans
Cochrane review of the use of Memantine in the treatment of dementia - Professor Sir John Grimley Evans
Cochrane review of Ginkgo biloba for dementia and cognitive impairment
Commissioned research
- Professor Roger Watson
Food for Thought
Collaborative project grants
- Professor Robert Howard
Cholinesterase inhibitors vs atypical antipsychotics in the management of agitation in dementia
Innovation grants
- Professor Joanna Wardlaw
Blood brain barrier breakdown in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia - Professor Hugh Perry
The association between infections and Alzheimer's disease - Dr Janet Johnston
Beta-site APP cleaving enzyme (BACE) levels and activity in human blood platelets - Professor Ruth Izthaki
The location of herpes simplex virus type 1 in Alzheimer's disease brains - Dr Stephen McIlroy
Establishment of human neuronal cell lines to examine Alzheimer's disease mutations - Dr Kieran Breen
The characterisation of acetylcholinesterase as a potential biochemical marker of Alzheimer's disease progression - Dr Chris Peers and Dr FT Vaughan
Regulation of amyloid protein by hypoxia - Dr Claus Jacob
Oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease: A new antioxidant strategy to inhibit cell damage
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