Professor John Starr: A tribute
We're deeply saddened to hear that Professor John Starr has passed away. Prof Starr supported our work for many years as an Alzheimer Scotland Trustee, and as the Director of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh....
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Alzheimer Scotland welcomes announcement of Scottish Brain Health Register
Scotland’s largest annual dementia conference (Friday 8 June, EICC, Edinburgh) will see the official launch of the newly created Scottish Brain Health Register. The register is led by the Scottish Dementia Informatics Platform (part of the...
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Help shape future models of dementia palliative care
Help Shape Future Models of Dementia Palliative Care - We Want to Hear From You! We want to hear from healthcare workers, policy-makers, researchers, and other professionals with an interest in Dementia palliative care. Your contribution...
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Research Conversations – Scottish Dementia Research Consortium’s 2018 conference
The SDRC's annual conference took place in Glasgow on 23 April, with around 120 delegates coming together to collaborate and exchange knowledge. The conference also provided a platform for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and others at the early stage of their...
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What is cognitive reserve, and how do we increase it?
This article was originally published on The World Bank’s Voices blog. In our previous blog post, we wrote about how getting a good head start in brain development builds the foundation of our cognitive abilities. It puts us in a path towards...
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How your early childhood shapes your brain
This post first appeared on The World Bank’s Voices Blog. Did you know that investments in early childhood are crucial for achieving the brain’s full developmental potential and resilience? Jim Heckman, Nobel Laureate in economics, and his collaborators have shown...
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A life-course perspective necessary to improve the health of older adults
Dorota Chapko is a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and a graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a double-major in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and in Anthropology. In this blog she discusses her recent Age & Ageing...
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