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  • What’s Wrong with The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes
    Justine Schneider
    Justine Schneider Thu, 20/06/2019 - 11:22

    There are fundamental errors that make this programme bad for people with dementia and those who care about them. 
  • What Dementia Teaches Us about Love
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Fri, 31/05/2019 - 11:13

    Nicci Gerrard is a well-known journalist, author and campaigner. Her book about dementia is an elegy for late father, who had dementia in the last years of his life.
  • Somebody I Used to Know
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Fri, 31/05/2019 - 10:49

    The somebody is Wendy Mitchell as she was before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 58. She was a highly active, well-organised NHS manager with a responsible job, able to deal with nursing rotas for a hospital in her head.
  • How poetry can help people live well with dementia
    Daisy Carter
    Daisy Carter Fri, 24/05/2019 - 11:32

    Throughout this past academic year, I have had the opportunity of visiting an East Midlands care home alongside another student as part of the Reading Aloud placement scheme, which involved reading poetry to residents there who are living with dem
  • #LOTUS_2019
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Fri, 10/05/2019 - 13:59

    No, not a posh sports car but a research workshop held in Botucatu, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Cane the brain
    Aleksandrs Karaluks
    Aleksandrs Karaluks Thu, 21/03/2019 - 15:37

    J.A.N. Corsellis and his colleagues are one of the many contemporary heroes in the field of neuroscience. Amongst their many contributions there’s one that stands out the most.
  • Exercise and dementia
    Tomi Akingbade
    Tomi Akingbade Thu, 14/03/2019 - 14:53

    People have lots of reasons for doing exercise. Some people want to lose weight, some people want to gain weight. Moderate exercise could be very important for people with dementia.
  • Genes and dementia
    Szymon Stodolak
    Szymon Stodolak Wed, 13/03/2019 - 17:04

    The final year research project allows neuroscience students at The University of Nottingham to delve deep with hands-on experience into their particular area of interest.
  • A Sense of Self in Dementia
    Aleksandrs Karaluks
    Aleksandrs Karaluks Wed, 13/03/2019 - 15:51

    It was during one of my Neurobiology of Disease (NoD) lectures at the end of my 2nd year when I properly got a chance to learn about dementia and memory loss.
  • Education and dementia
    Tomi Akingbade
    Tomi Akingbade Tue, 12/03/2019 - 17:38

    Learning new skills keeps the mind active, which is especially important as one gets older. Here I’ll break down how important it is to keeping exposing yourself to learning opportunities in adulthood.

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