Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Hector Perez, Postdoctoral Researcher & Busola Adekoya, PhD Student both from University of Waterloo.

Dr Hector Perez - Our research investigates dementia-related missing incidents, and the importance of preventive measures, such as dementia-friendly communities, alert systems, and risk profiles. We have a strong collaboration with stakeholders, such as persons living with dementia and older adults, caregivers, community organizations and technology developers. We are part of the Aging and Innovation Research Program.

Busola Adekoya - Our research investigates dementia-related missing incidents, and the importance of preventive measures, such as dementia-friendly communities, alert systems, and risk profiles. We have a strong collaboration with stakeholders, such as persons living with dementia and older adults, caregivers, community organizations and technology developers. We are part of the Aging and Innovation Research Program.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Nadine Mirza, Postgraudate Researcher & Research Associate, University of Manchester and Dr Mirna L. Arroyo-Miranda, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Houston.

Nadine Mirza - My research is based on the dementia diagnostic process for ethnic minorities. I have specifically focused on the cultural adaptation of cognitive tests and improving the memory clinic pathway for British South Asians. I've also explored ethnic minority inclusion in dementia research.

Dr Mirna L. Arroyo-Miranda - My research explores Social connectedness and cognitive function among Latinos, early diagnosis and ADRD inclusion science.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Anna Volkmer, Senior Research Fellow & Speech and Language Therapist at University College London, Dr Katherine Britt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Pennsylvania and Professor Cindy Weinstein, GBHI Fellow and Eli & Edythe Professor of English, Caltech, USA.

Dr Anna Volkmer - I am interested a speech and language therapist who has specialised in working with people with dementia and their families. My research focuses on developing speech and language interventions for people with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and other dementias (inc Alzheimer's disease). I am passionate about conversation and supporting people and their families to be able interact "better". This also includes exploring how we measure what is important to people living with PPA and dementia and their families.

Dr Katherine Carroll Britt - I recently graduated with my PhD from The University of Texas. My work focuses on the utilisation of religion and spirituality for coping during stress and illness and how religious and spiritual practices impact mental and physical health, mainly in older adults including those with cognitive impairment, dementia, and their caregivers. My most recent work looks at associations of religious service attendance and frequency of private prayer with neuropsychiatric symptoms, cognitive function, and sleep disturbances in dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment. I aim to identify protective factors and create nonpharmacologic interventions to slow disease progression and to improve well-being and quality of life in dementia.

Professor Cindy Weinstein - I am an English professor at the California Institute of Technology and an Atlantic Fellow, who studied neurology at the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF. While there, Dr. Bruce Miller and I wrote a book, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain ( https://bit.ly/3uBO8Ju ), which was published last year by Johns Hopkins University. It is about my father's early onset Alzheimer's, and is told from my perspective as a daughter/English professor and Dr. Miller's as a son/neurologist.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Eric Dyne, Clinical Specialist at Roche Diagnostics, Louise Serpell, Professor of Biochemistry at University of Sussex and Beth Eyre, PhD Student at The University of Sheffield.

Dr Eric Dyne - My research involved the use of nanoparticles to target beta-amyloid plaques but current interest and specialisation is biomarkers and diagnostics for Alzheimer's disease and ADRDs.

Professor Louise Serpell - I lead a team of researchers, investigating the causes of dementia, we are interested in causes of AD and what the involvement of amyloidbeta and tau is at a molecular level.

Beth Eyre - My research focuses on something we call neurovascular function, which is the relationship between neurons and blood flow in the brain. During my PhD I have been looking at the effects of heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and both diseases together and the effect these disease have on neurovascular function.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Lauren Walker, ARUK Research Fellow at Newcastle University, Dr Megan Torvell, Research Associate in the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University, Dr Keeley Brookes-Baker, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and Joe Morgan a PhD Student from University of Salford.

Dr Lauren Walker - My main research interests lie in investigating the effects of multiple pathological lesions on clinical phenotype in neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body disease). Using a quantitative clinico-patholigical approach I aim to tease is distinct clinico-pathologcal phenotypes which may ultimately lead to tailored treatment options for patients. To complete this work, I use donated human brain tissue from Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource and the Brains for Dementia Research initiative.

Dr Megan Torvell - My research uses human postmortem tissue and genetically modified mouse models to understand the role of complement, an important branch of the innate immune system, in Alzheimer's disease.

Dr Keeley Brookes - My research focuses on producing genetic data and analysis for the Brains for Dementia Research (BDR) Project to be used in conjunction with other data generated on this cohort to bridge the gap between genetic risk for dementia and phenotype. My current studies are to try and align current polygenic risk score models with biological outcomes, in order to refine the model to the most relevant genetic variants, therefore increasing the accuracy of the score to predict genetic risk and identify those genes that may be actionable targets for therapeutic intervention.

Joe Morgan - My research is based on investigating the relationship between autophagy and small extrscellular vesicle miRNA cargoes in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Professor Claire Surr, Professor of Dementia Studies at Leeds Beckett University and Dr Victoria Shepherd, Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff University.

Professor Claire Surr - I am Director of the Centre for Dementia Research, a cross-University research Centre dedicated to supporting multi-disciplinary applied dementia research. I have led a wide range of dementia research programmes funded by major funders including the National Institute for Health Research and the Alzheimer's Society. I work in dementia care and services research. Most recently my focus has been on dementia and comorbidity, care homes and workforce education and training.

Dr Victoria Shepherd - I lead an interdisciplinary programme of research exploring the ethical and methodological issues around research involving adults with impaired capacity to consent, including people living with dementia. This includes the recent development of the NIHR INCLUDE Impaired Capacity to Consent Framework to help researchers to design trials that are more inclusive of people who may experience challenges around consent. Alongside this, I have a broad portfolio of methodological research including care home studies such as COS COVID PCARE which established the core outcomes to be measured in trials evaluating interventions to prevent COVID-19 in care homes.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Catherine Quinn, Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies at University of Bradford; Dr Catherine Charlwood, IDEAL Research Translation & Impact Manager at University of Exeter and Nikita Sharma, Postgraduate student at Swami Vivekanand Subharti University.

Dr Catherine Quinn - My research focuses improving the quality of life of those affected by dementia. First, through gaining a better understanding of the experiences of those affected by dementia and the factors that affect their quality of life. Second, by developing interventions to improve the quality of life of those affected by dementia. I teach modules on post-diagnostic support in dementia and am also a Fellow of the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Care Research and a member of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber.

Dr Catherine Charlwood - Drawing on an unusual background of three degrees in literature, I work for the IDEAL programme as Research Translation and Impact Manager. My role exists to help promote our findings to various different stakeholders from our key beneficiaries of people with dementia and carers, through to practitioners and policymakers. It's an enormous privilege to work closely on the PPIE elements of IDEAL and one of my proudest achievements is the Living with Dementia Toolkit.

Nikita Sharma - Currently pursuing her MD Naturopathy & working on reviews & exploring the “Effect of Meditation on amygdala in healthy & among Alzheimer’s disease patients”.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society. 

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Jacqueline Cannon, CEO of The Lewy Body Society, Bridget Barker, CEO of Race Against Dementia, Dr Sara Imarisio, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Alzheimer's Research UK and Katherine Gray, Research Communications Manager at Alzheimer's Society.

Jacqueline Cannon - I'm the CEO of The Lewy Body Society. As a small charity, everyone has more than one job, my role is varied and involves but not limited to:  Book keeping; website updates; fulfilment of orders from the society’s online shop; social media updates; taking calls from carers; responding to emails; sending out information packs; managing research grant applications; arranging and taking part in zoom events.  We're proud to have a dedicated community of fundraisers and researchers, and bringing them together to support people living with Lewy Bodies is very important. 

Bridget Barker - I run the charity started by Formula 1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart. On I day-to-day basis this includes ensuring there is appropriate governance, fundraising, marketing, arranging various events  and using the charity’s money to support the RAD Fellows’ Development Programme as well as investing in innovative projects to accelerate research into dementia. My maternal grandmother had dementia, and I share in Sir Jackie's passion to find new ways to beat dementia, learning from other industries who are able to bring rapid innovation and new ideas. 

Dr Sara Imarisio - I'm the Head of Strategic Initiatives at Alzheimer’s Research UK. I am responsible for overseeing initiatives such as the charity’s Drug Discovery Alliance, the UK Dementia Research Institute, and the Brains for Dementia Research. Prior to joining Alzheimer’s Research UK, I was a postdoc in Cambridge affiliated to Prof David Rubinsztein’s lab, screening for modifiers of neurodegenerative diseases caused by aggregate-prone proteins. I completed my PhD in Italy, working on the characterisation of a protein involved in the latest stages of the cell cycle and necessary for the correct development of the brain. 

Katherine Gray - I work in the wonderful Research Communications team at Alzheimer’s Society sharing research updates to the Society’s donors and supporters, sharing research findings through the Society’s channels and in the media. Talking directly to the dementia research community about how the Society can support you.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Anna Sanchez Avila, PhD Student from University of Dundee and Rebecca Williams, PhD Student in the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge.

Anna Sanchez Avila - I work in the field of motor neuron disease and frontotemporal dementia, which have more in common than you might think. I use high-resolution microscopy techniques to look at how synapses - small, delicate structures that allow our brain cells to communicate with each other - change in disease. I want to also see if those changes happen all over the brain or in specific regions that correlate with the symptoms we see.

Rebecca Williams - I study apathy in conditions associated with frontotemporal degeneration, using a combination of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging, Bayesian frameworks (The Bayesian framework uses metered data to infer the most likely distribution of the modeling parameters) and computational modelling.  

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk

Recorded at the Dementia Research Charity #Chatathon 2022 - Adam Smith interviews Dr Danielle Newby, Postdoctoral Data Scientist and Dr Laura Winchester, Alzheimer's Research UK Fellow both from University of Oxford.

Dr Danielle Newby - Based within the Centre for Statistics in Medicine at Oxford. One of my areas of research is now generating evidence about the safety of medicines in people living with dementia and parkinson's disease across the UK and Europe using real world evidence (i.e. medical records). This evidence can be used to help improve decision making by clinicians about the drugs they prescribe and utimately improve the quality of life of these patients.

Dr Laura Winchester - I am interested in the application of large-scale multi-omics data to better understand disease variants and therapeutics. This involves using genomic and proteomic data analysis from Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and healthy population cohorts to develop new biomarkers and understand dementia mechanisms by applying integrative and machine learning methodologies. I use all these informatics approaches in my main research focus: the study of the relationship between iron homeostasis and dementia.

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The 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon LIVE was held on Friday 2nd December - A non-stop 12.5 hours livestream hosted by Adam Smith interviewing 68 Dementia Researchers and Special Guests working across all areas of discovery to beat Alzheimer's disease and all forms of dementia.   Raising money for research and providing insights into the latest research taking place across the UK and Worldwide.

This year we are raising money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

For more information and to donate visit http://www.chatathon.uk