News UEA's £1 million project launch to monitor ex-footballers for early signs of dementia - Alzheimer's Society comment Researchers at the University of East Anglia are crowd-funding a new project to test former professional football players for early signs of dementia.
Advice 5 New Year’s resolutions to help reduce your risk of dementia Here are five things you can do to help lower your chances of developing dementia, with illustrations by multi-award winning cartoonist Tony Husband. 02 January 2020 23
Advice Why I go walking: How can walking help us to stay well? We ask about the different ways you keep healthy and well, whether you have dementia or not. This time, we hear how walking helps five readers. 28 November 2019 0
Research Steps to prevent memory loss Could walking up to 9,000 steps per day reduce the brain damage caused by dementia years before symptoms begin? 11 September 2019 1
Research Women and dementia - new insights Worldwide, women with dementia outnumber men two to one, but biomedical research is only now beginning to investigate why this is the case. 11 September 2019 0
Research Can a healthier lifestyle reduce your risk of dementia? New research from an international team of dementia researchers, led by Exeter Medical School, has found that following a few simple lifestyle choices may help to prevent dementia – particularly in people who have a higher genetic risk of developing the condition. Find out what this means for you. 16 July 2019 4
News Healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk of dementia – Alzheimer’s Society comment New research has highlighted that living a healthy lifestyle may help offset a person’s genetic risk of dementia.
Research Mining a common food compound, Epicatechin, for a new Alzheimer’s disease treatment Research project: Mining the (-)-epicatechin metabolome for AD therapeutics
Research ‘Use it or lose it’: What’s the truth in dementia? Research project: Cognitive reserve and dementia incidence
Research Report: Is there a link between air pollution and dementia? Research has linked air pollution to a wide range of health problems, including dementia. Alzheimer's Society invited a panel of experts to analyse the evidence of this emerging risk factor. 05 June 2019 1
Research Investigating mushrooms Josie Clarkson, a Dementia Support Worker and science writer in South London, looks at research into mushrooms and brain function. 04 June 2019 0
Research Could air pollution cause dementia? We brought together neurologists, epidemiologists and experts on the effects of toxins in the brain to help us make sense of the research on air pollution and dementia so far. 04 June 2019 3
