As part of World Alzheimer’s Day, four dementia experts from the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre share the latest research breakthroughs on Alzheimer’s disease.

Speakers:

Dr Rebekah Ahmed, Staff Specialist Neurologist Memory and Cognition Clinic Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Frontier Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group and Motor Neurone Disease Research Group at the Brain and Mind Centre

Associate Professor John Kwok, Principal Research Fellow and Team Leader, Forefront Neurogenetics and Epigenetics Research Group at the Brain and Mind Centre

Professor Sharon Naismith, Leonard P Ullman Chair in Psychology, University of Sydney, and Team Leader of the ForeFront Healthy Brain Ageing Program at Brain and Mind Centre.

Hosted by Professor Jillian Kril Professor of Neuropathology, Disciplines of Medicine and Pathology, and Associate Dean (Research), Sydney Medical School.

A Sydney Ideas event, co-presented with the Brain and Mind Centre, on 21 September 2017, http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/alzheimers_awareness_forum.shtml