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Tom Dening

Tom Dening

Tom Dening
Professor of Dementia Research
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Nottingham

Tom is the head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at Nottingham. With over 20 years experience as a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, he is currently an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Tom has extensive NHS management and leadership experience.

Maigret and memory

Tom Dening
Mon, 10/05/2021 - 15:37

Between 1931 and 1972, the French writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) published 75 novels featuring the celebrated Detective Chief Inspector Maigret.

Sleep duration and the risk of dementia

Tom Dening
Wed, 21/04/2021 - 12:59

As dementia results from changes in the brain, it is unsurprising that people with dementia often have disrupted sleep patterns. Changes in sleep pattern may occur before a person has enough other symptoms to acquire a diagnosis of dementia.

Sleep duration and the risk of dementia

Tom Dening
Wed, 21/04/2021 - 12:59

As dementia results from changes in the brain, it is unsurprising that people with dementia often have disrupted sleep patterns. Changes in sleep pattern may occur before a person has enough other symptoms to acquire a diagnosis of dementia.

The Centre for Dementia Blog Competition 2020

Tom Dening
Tue, 01/09/2020 - 15:24

The Centre for Dementia is based at the Institute of Mental Health on the University’s Jubilee Campus, and it is one of several mental health research groups based there.

Deaths outside hospital

Tom Dening
Wed, 15/04/2020 - 10:26

It is worrying that there appears to be a sharp increase in deaths in the community that are not known to be due to covid-19.

Recovering from intensive care

Tom Dening
Wed, 15/04/2020 - 10:22

This blog was written in response to an article in the Independent by James Moore, see https://edition.independent.co.uk/editions/uk.co.independent.issue.100

Death and grief after Covid-19

Tom Dening
Thu, 02/04/2020 - 21:05

I received this circulated message from the Science Media Centre in London:

Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?

Death and grief after Covid-19

Tom Dening
Thu, 02/04/2020 - 21:05

I received this circulated message from the Science Media Centre in London:

Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?

Death and grief after Covid-19

Tom Dening
Thu, 02/04/2020 - 21:05

I received this circulated message from the Science Media Centre in London:

Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?

I Remain in Darkness

Tom Dening
Fri, 31/01/2020 - 14:20

This account of the late stages of her mother’s dementia was published by the French writer Annie Ernaux in 1997 but its first British publication was in 2019.

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