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Adjusting to daily life with social isolation and lockdown has its challenges and the dramatic situation that we find ourselves in because of the COVID-19 pandemic, means people with eating disorders are at risk of their disorder becoming more severe or relapsing.
New dementia risk score helps identify people at risk
Dementia Early intervention Old-age psychiatry
24 August 2023
The UK Biobank Dementia Risk Score, or UKBDRS for short, outperformed three other widely used risk scores when identifying people at risk of developing dementia.
Hearing Aid Use Linked to Slower Decline in Thinking Skills
Dementia Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
7 March 2022
A new study, co-funded by Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), has found that hearing loss increased the risk of a precursor to dementia called mild cognitive impairment, but this increased risk is not present in people who wear hearing aids.
New Clinical Trial to Test Drug for Diabetes in Reducing Risk of Alzheimer’s Dementia
Dementia Early intervention Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
10 December 2021
A new study led through a collaboration between the Diabetes Trials Unit and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, and the global healthcare company, Novo Nordisk, will examine whether semaglutide, a tablet used to treat diabetes, can change the course of the earliest changes that happen in the brains of people at risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia.
Potential New Target to Prevent or Delay Dementia
Alzheimer's disease Dementia Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
5 January 2021
New study shows targeting arterial stiffening earlier in a person’s lifespan could provide cognitive benefits in older age and may help to delay the onset of dementia.
Multi-million-pound Renewal of Funding for DPUK's Dementia Research
Awards Dementia Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
5 November 2020
The UK's Medical Research Council (MRC) has confirmed renewal of funding for Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), in partnership with industry and the third sector.
First of its kind in UK - Innovative New Brain Health Centre
Alzheimer's disease Dementia Integrative-neuroimaging Mental Health Old-age psychiatry
17 September 2020
New Oxford Brain Health Centre (BHC) open. Developed with the involvement of members of the public with lived experience of memory problems, the centre is a combined clinical and research service which has the potential to revolutionise NHS memory services.