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Dr Courtney Genge, Program Adviser for the federal ageing research program, National Research Council Canada I have spent the last few years researching Dementia in the emergency department using a human factors framework to understand the safety implications of receiving care in this setting. My work is grounded in participatory research approaches and utilises co-production and collaborative research partnerships with people living with dementia - @courtneyjshaw1 ⁠ Dr Emily Jones, Senior Matron for Medicine at Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust. In my clinical academic doctorate I explored how the work system of an acute hospital impacted nursing staff's capacity to care for people with dementia. The findings indicated that nurses are driven by the priorities of the organisation, which unfortunately is not high quality dementia care but patient flow and patient safety initiatives. Nurses struggle with feelings of guilt and fear with regards to their work, guilt for not providing good care but fear of not completing the task "visible" to the organisation. The research raises questions about nursing autonomy and decision making, particularly with regards to the organisation of their work and also how we make dementia care tangible. @emilyjonesmed

On the 7th September 2020, ⁠⁠Adam Smith⁠⁠ hosted the Dementia Research Chatathon LIVE - to share information on the wide variety of research taking place across the world, and the raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK. Please continue to donate and help Adam meet his £5,000 target - details can be found at ⁠⁠http://www.chatathon.uk⁠⁠.

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Claire Surr, Professor of Dementia Studies, Director of the Centre for Dementia Research, Leeds Beckett University. Claire works in dementia care and services research. She recently completed the DCM EPIC Study, What Works Study (components of effective dementia training) and CanDem Study (experiences of cancer treatment and care by people with dementia) - @clairesurr Dr Laura Booi, Research Associate, Newcastle University. Laura's research brings together international dementia advocacy, and patient-public-involvement, engaging both the next generation of dementia focused leaders as well as marginalized, often unheard voices affected by dementia. As a trained social gerontologist, she has spent the last dozen years working towards understanding and making long-term residential care for dementia better for those working and living in this sector - @DementiaHealth Dr Victoria Shepherd, Research Associate, Cardiff University. Victoria is involved in the design and conduct of clinical trials, with a particular interest in the methodological aspects of care home research. Her research primarily focuses on addressing the ethical and practical challenges of involving adults who lack capacity to consent in research, and developing interventions to support decision-making by consultees/legal representatives - @VickyLShepherd

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Dr Hazel Hall-Roberts, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford (Now UK Dementia Research Institute, Cardiff University). I work on risk genes for Alzheimer's disease that are expressed highly in microglia, and I study them in a dish using human induced pluripotent stem cell models of microglia - @HazelLRoberts Dr Mark Dallas, Associate Professor Neuroscience, University of Reading. My work looks at non neuronal cells and their potential to combat Alzheimer's. Cellular work looking a ion channels on glial cells and changes in their function long before clinical presentation. In addition, we are looking at the ability of carbon monoxide to suppress amyloid toxicity and be a neuroprotectant - @drmarkdallas

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Dr Sam Moxon, Research Associate, The University of Manchester (now Birmingham) - I am a biomaterials scientist seeking to apply biomedical engineering principals to the study of dementia. I work in Prof Nigel Hooper's research group generating 3D culture platforms for probing the underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia - @DrSamMoxon

Louise Serpell, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Sussex - I lead a team of researchers, investigating the causes of dementia, protein misfolding mechanisms, structure and toxicity. With a particular interest in Neuronal damage and the APOE genes - @Serpell1

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Dr Amanda Heslegrave, Senior Research Fellow, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL. I collaborate with clinical researchers to measure biomarkers of neurodegeneration in a variety of biofluids, most topical right now are blood biomarkers which we are able to measure with the use of super sensitive assay technology - @ajh1269

Dr Josie Jenkinson, Consultant Psychiatrist for Older People, Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. I am an NHS doctor and researcher, focusing on long-term specialist continuing care and health services research. I am particularly interested in deliberate self harm in older adults, delirium and dementia care pathways.

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Dr Danielle Newby, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. My research is focused on using existing data such as GP records to find drugs used to treat other diseases such as hypertension that could be used for dementia prevention and the possibility of dementia prevention using repurposed drugs - @Danielle_Newby

Martin Knapp, Professor of Health and Social Care Policy, London School of Economics. I am Professor of Health and Social Care Policy & Professorial Research Fellow in the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC; formerly PSSRU). Since 2009, I have also been Director of the School for Social Care Research, part of the NIHR. My main research interests are in the areas of social care, child and adult mental health, dementia and autism. Much of my work uses economic arguments and evidence to inform policy discussion and influence practice development. My research has wide-ranging impacts on policy and practice in a number of fields - @Knappem

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Leah Hewer-Richards, PhD Student, University of Southampton - I am researching the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of continence care in residential care homes for people with a dementia. I will be looking at how fears around contamination may have changed continence care practices, particularly in relation to restricted access to PPE. I will also be looking at stigma associated with continence care and working within a care home during the pandemic - @leahlearns_ 

Dr Rachel Daly, Professional and Practice Development Facilitator, Dementia UK - I am leading an Appreciative Inquiry study to understand the everyday decisions that people living with dementia and communication difficulties make and share in care homes. Also how and with whom they share those decisions. Participants (people living with dementia and staff and family care partners) designed and implemented interventions to maintain and improve shared everyday decision-making practice - @dementiaventure

Dr Alys Griffiths, Senior Research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University (now at University of Liverpool) I do care homes research, including a secondment as an embedded researcher in a care home one day per week. I'm interested in outcome measures, from the perspective of their development and validation, and ensuring their appropriate use, allowing people with dementia the chance to participate in research wherever possible - @alysgriffiths_

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Imogen Swift Research Assistant, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL. Imogen is involved in developing novel fluid biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia (FTD). With a particular focus on developing CSF and blood-based markers for genetic FTD caused by GRN mutations. Imogen works within the Fluid Biomarker team at the Dementia Research Institute with Dr Amanda Heslegrave and the FTD UCL team at the Dementia Research Centre with Jon Rohrer. She is also involved in managing the biobank for a number of dementia studies including GENFI which involves coordinating sample collection from 27 sites across the world - @immy_swift

Dr Lucy Russell Research Fellow, Dementia Research Centre, University College London. Lucy works with Dr Rohrer on a project called GENFI that aims to follow individuals with a genetic form of FTD. Her current role is to act as the FTD Prevention Initiative (FPI) co-ordinator, working with GENFI and other large cohort studies across the world as well as pharmaceutical companies and consortium groups to get as many clinical trials up and running as soon as possible. Additionally Lucy is involved in recruiting individuals to the one (and only) FTD trial currently running in the UK. Her specific interests and PhD looked at social interactions with individuals with Dementia, as well as trying to developing novel eye-tracking tasks that are more sensitive to change earlier in the disease course than what current assessments currently are able to do.

Dr Martina Bocchetta Senior Research Fellow, Dementia Research Centre, UCL. With funding from Alzheimer's Society, Martina investigates the changes that occur in the brain in the genetic forms of FTD. Using different neuroimaging techniques to measure these changes on MRIs, hoping to identify markers of disease onset and progression to be used in clinical trials - @bocchettaM

Mica Clarke PhD Candidate, University College London. Mica is investigating new ways to track the progression of disease in FTD. She is using a type of brain imaging to do this called PET imaging (positron emission tomography), which allows us to look at certain proteins in the brain via brain scans that might be involved in the disease process - @mtmclarke

Dr Aitana Sogorb Esteve Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL Atina is looking for novel biomarkers and biomarker panels to diagnose the different aspects of FTD - @aitanasogorb

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Dr Clarissa Giebel Research Fellow, University of Liverpool. Clarissa's research is looks at how people with dementia can be supported to live independently at home, and how we can address inequalities that might hinder them from getting the care they need. She has also recently been researching the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on people living with dementia, and issues with social care - @clarissagiebel

Sarah Wallcook PhD Student, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Sarah's research focuses on how everyday technology shapes, facilitates and hinders the everyday life of people with dementia, with a particular interest in rural contexts. Her patient and pubic involvement activities work in partnership with the Focus on Dementia Network group in Cumbria and are aimed at complementing and supporting the wider participatory ecosystem of the rural area in which they take place - @sarah_wallcock  ( Updated Jan 2023 - Now Dr Sarah Wallcook ).

Monica Leverton PhD Student, Division of Psychiatry, University College London. Monica's PhD research uses an ethnographic approach to explore the role of homecare workers in supporting independence at home in people living with dementia. Her work has also looks at the training and support needs of homecare workers who provide care to people living with dementia, to inform a training intervention for the homecare sector - @monicaleverton  (Updated Jan 2023 - Now Dr Monica Leverton at Kin's College London)

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Dr Emily Maguire, Research Associate, UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University. Emily researches the use of human stem cells which she differentiates into brain cells to understand the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

Dr Sarah Ryan, Alzheimer's Society Research Fellow, University of Manchester. Sarah is investigating mechanisms of neurodegeneration in C9orf72 FTD, particularly those caused by the dipeptides arising from the C9 expansion - @geekazoid.

Dr James Quinn, Neurology Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (moved since recording). James studies neuropeptides in neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases to unravel disease mechanisms, working to identify new diagnostic biomarkers (something that indicated someone had dementia, and the type), and novel therapeutic targets - @tweetwithquin.

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Dr Christina Toomey, Post-doctoral Research Associate, University College London. Christina's research focuses on the proteomics and lipidomics of neurodegenerative diseases and the link to the pathology present. My PhD was on the role TREM2 Gene plays in neurodegeneration too - @christina_neuro.

Dr Guliz Ozcan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University College London. Guliz works at the interception of sleep and Alzheimer's disease. Sleep problems are one of the earliest symptoms of AD and often arise years before the cognitive deficits. Using zebrafish, we have recently shown that Aβ acutely and reversibly enhances or suppresses sleep as a function of oligomer length - @guilizozcan.

Dr Gemma Lace, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science & Lead of Public Engagement and Outreach, University of Salford. Gemma researchers the role of autophagy impairments in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia, the role of obesity in dementia risk and how exosomes may shed light on underlying disease mechanisms and be used as diagnostic biomarkers. A large part her job is to also raise dementia awareness through outreach and public engagement events - @gemmalace

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Professor Katie Lunnon,  Professor of Dementia Genomics, University of Exeter. Katie works in the field of epigenetics and gene regulation. Her studies look in the brain to see if we can identify epigenetic differences in individuals with dementia as well as in the blood with the hope of identifying new biomarkers. Initially focusing on Alzheimer's disease but now expanding her studies to look at other dementias as well. Additionally Katie leads a number of functional studies, exploring proteins, iPSCs and gene editing in cell lines - @katielunnon

Dr Leonidas Chouliaras, Clinical Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Leo is a clinician and epigeneticist, focused on Lewy Body Dementia. Working both on clinical cohorts, studying DNA methylation in blood samples as well as in autopsy brain tissues, isolating neurons with Lewy Bodies using laser-microdissection and comparing the epigenetic profiles with healthy looking neurons from the same donor or from controls - @chouliarasL

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Brendan Commane, PhD student, Royal College of Art, London. Brendan is researching the environment in care homes for people with dementia. He is using technology to support a more engaging and stimulating environment and also researching the power of soft toys or a textile item as a means of comfort, security and conversation. He hopes to bring the soft item and the technology together. His is just getting started, however it will involve family, carers and the residents all working together and inclusively - @BGC210.

Dr Kat Algar-Skaife, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dementia Care and Welfare Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Over the past twelve years, I have led and contributed to research around understanding and improving support; developing and evaluating psychosocial, physical activity, and creative interventions. I collaborate with organisations such as Age Cymru and local authorities to ensure that my research has a real-life impact outside of an academic setting. I currently lead the SENSE-Emotion project which aims to provide a deeper understanding of the experiences and emotional responses of people living with dementia engaging with SENSE-GARDEN, an immersive digital sensory room - @kat_algar.

Professor Marion Lynch, Visiting Professor of Dementia Care, University of West London. Marion works on developing the frameworks informing how we think about designing dementia care and in particular how the arts can help - @drmarionlynch.

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Dr Fiona Marshall Research Fellow, University of Nottingham (SLIDES) Fiona's research looks at the design and delivery of dementia care services in remote and rural areas of the UK. Proportionally, there are far more older people living with dementia and spousal carers then in urban areas, yet less attention and funding is afforded to these areas. By adopting a more spatial policy approach to the design and delivery of dementia focused services, my work seeks to challenge the dominance of "one size fits all" approach which underpins the most of dementia-friendly services - @fionaj1215

Dr Paul Brownbill Insight Lead-Richmond Fellowship  Paul finished his PhD study, looking at caring for people who have dementia in community hospitals. The study details everyday decision making of people who work in community hospitals, looking it from an ethnometholodogical perspective. He now works for a Mental Health charity as a manager of research & impact - @paully232000

Professor Siobhan Reilly University of Bradford Siobhan researches inequalities of health and social care for people living with dementia and people with severe mental illness. Over the years, the goal of her research programme has been to improve the quality of care and the evidence base for the delivery of health and social care services for these groups. In October 2020 she started a new role as Director of the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies at University of Bradford - @DrSiobhanReilly

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Dr Marianne Coleman Clinical Vision Research Fellow, University of Melbourne. Marianne's research looks at how people with dementia see, and how we can help them look after their eyes while living with dementia. Ensuring people living with dementia have the best eyesight possible helps to reduce their risk of falling and makes it more likely they can keep interacting with family, friends, and doing their day to day activities they enjoy. This helps people to stay living at home and doing things independently for longer - @MPOrthoptics

Dr Catherine Quinn Lecturer in Dementia Studies, University of Bradford. Catherine's research focuses on 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. She is also a co-investigator on the IDEAL programme, which is a large-scale cohort study of living well with dementia - @cquinn196

This video / podcast features Adam talking with Wendy Mitchell, Chris Roberts and Jayne Goodrick. Three people who are living with effects of dementia every day. Chatting about why research is important to them, asking what messages they have for researchers, and what they would like to see more of, from their own experience as study participants.

Dr Nathan Davies, Senior Research Fellow, University College London.  Nathan conducts research into exploring ways to support family carers of people living with dementia who are towards the end of life. With Dr Nuriye Kupeli, he have conducted a Covid-19 study developing a decision aid to support family carers having to make rapid decisions about care for a relative who has dementia and has become rapidly unwell with covid-19 (e.g. hospitalisation, visiting etc) - @NathanDavies50.

Dr Nuriye Kupeli, Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London. Nuriye also conducts research into exploring ways to support family carers of people living with dementia who are towards the end of life. Along with Dr Nathan Davies, she conducted a Covid-19 study developing a decision aid to support family carers having to make rapid decisions about care for a relative who has dementia and has become rapidly unwell with Covid-19 (e.g. hospitalisation, visiting etc) - @dmkupeli.

Dr Kellyn Lee Research Fellow, University of Southampton. Kellyn's research looks at the importance of everyday objects and how they can support and maintain identity and independence in dementia care. She is currently collaborating with a care organisation to design, develop and implement a training programme with material citizenship, functional objects for meaningful lives - @kellynleefarrar

This video / podcast features Adam talking with Wendy Mitchell, Chris Roberts and Jayne Goodrick. Three people who are living with effects of dementia every day. Chatting about why research is important to them, asking what messages they have for researchers, and what they would like to see more of, from their own experience as study participants.

Wendy Mitchell  - was diagnosed with young onset dementia on the 31st July 2014 at the age of 58 years old.  Wendy retired early from the NHS having worked as a non-clinical team leader for 20 years.  Post-diagnosis, she was shocked by the lack of awareness, both in the community and clinical world, so she now spends all of her time travelling around the country raising awareness and encouraging others to embrace her passion for research. Wendy is an Alzheimer's Society Ambassador, blogger and member of 3 Nations Dementia Working Group she also wrote an amazing bestselling book 'Somebody I Used to Know' a Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 2019 Paperback. With humour, truth and grace, this book her book gives a unique insight into what it's like to live with Alzheimer's disease - @WendyPMitchell.

Chris Roberts & Jayne Goodrick - are from Wales. Chris was diagnosed with mixed dementia in early 2012 but has not let this diagnosis get in the way of leading a full life.  He and his amazing wife Jayne, spend most of their time promoting and providing education to others about dementia. Chris regularly give talks on what it’s like to live with dementia and how research plays an important role in unlocking new treatments and better care, supported by Jayne who provides unique insights as someone living with the disease in a different way. Together they believe in dementia rights, inclusion, co-production and the promotion of better services for everyone living with dementia.  Chris is an Ambassador for the UK Alzheimer’s Society, Join Dementia Research Champion, Affiliate member of Dementia Action Alliance UK, Honorary Lecturer, Bangor University, Wales and a Member of the NICE Dementia Clinical Guideline Review Committee - @mason4233 / @jaynegoodrick.

Thank you to everyone who joined to share their work, everyone who donated and to all of those who came along to watch live or who has caught up on the recordings from the 2022 Dementia Research Charity Chatathon.

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

Dr Lucy Chisman-Russell - I am a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Bluefield Project. I am the co-ordinator of the FTD Prevention Initiative, helping to link together the genetic FTD cohort studies from around the world, and liaising with pharmaceutical companies as new drug trials start for people with FTD. My research interests initially focused on social cognitive assessments in FTD using instructionless eye tracking tasks but have expanded in my postdoc role to the development of digital and remote markers in FTD.

Professor Tammaryn Lashley - My research is based around various neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. We use post-mortem human brain tissue to investigate the underlying pathological mechanisms that cause or are involved in the disease pathogenesis.

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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

Dr Dia Soilemezi - My research explores Home care/ oral care: Improving oral care for people who live with dementia and get support from care workers. Family carers and cohabiting: Home environment and how it changes for family carers (need for escape space, use of AT, strategies for safety, dementia-friendly homes).

Dr Marianne Coleman - Developing information about eye tests for people living with dementia and carers, and a training course for optometrists about dementia-friendly eyecare. These are based on qualitative research with people living with dementia, carers and optometrists.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Amanda Heslegrave - I collaborate with clinical researchers to measure biomarkers of neurodegeneration in a variety of biofluids, most topical right now are blood biomarkers which we are able to measure with the use of super sensitive assay technology - overall I focus on Fluid Biomarkers, diagnostics, prognostics, response to therapeutics.

Dr Nicholas Ashton - I have over decade of experience in biofluid analysis and assay development for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorder which ranges from discovery mass spectrometry methods to ultra-sensitive immunoassays development. Recently, this has seen the success of assays specific for phosphorylated tau and neurofilament light, which being evaluated for clinical routine across Europe and inclusion criterion for clinical trials targeting dementia. I have published over 100 original research articles in fluid biomarker for neurogenerative diseases.

Dr Aitana Sogorb-Esteve - My expertise is in fluid biomarkers and specifically I am looking for novel markers to assess synaptic dysfunction in genetic FTD. I have had promising results in Cerebrospinal fluid and my aim now is to measure such synaptic markers in blood by extracting neuronal-derived extracellular vesicles from plasma samples in the GENFI cohort.

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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

Dr Esme Wood - My research explores the lived experience of people with early stage dementia who use GPS navigation technologies to enable them to engage in meaningful outdoor occupation. The findings explored both the technologies used and the experience of users, identifying that such technologies can support quality of life through engagement in occupations that define identity, connections to nature and the outdoors and promoion of independence.

Dr Stephan Price - Working on the ENLIVEN project to find on ways to improve opportunities for people living with cognitive impairment to get outdoors into nature. Collaborating with a range of business and organisations in the outdoor visitor economy to develop new innovations that will be co-produced with people with cognitive impairment. I am focusing on issues of organisation and economy.

Dr Steven Owen - Our research aims to help older people living with dementia experience a better quality of life through increased contact with the natural environment. Working with people living with dementia, business, and third sector organisations we explore the barriers they face in accessing nature and innovative practices that will help businesses in the visitor economy reduce these barriers.

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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

Ellice Parkinson - My research is concerned with drinking and low-intake dehydration amongst older people, particularly those living with dementia in care homes. Prior to undertaking the PhD, I worked as a Research Fellow specifically on Huntington’s Disease Research.

Kate Turley - I am undertaking my PhD at Ulster University, focused on improving the wellbeing for people living with dementia, and reducing pressure on care staff. My research explores the use of therapeutic lighting technology for care homes and tracking resident activity to support care staff in their daily routines.  

Dr Terry Quinn - My team has a research focus on dementia assessment and the cognitive consequences of cardiovascular diseases. I also hold leadership roles in groups such as Cochrane Dementia and Scottish Dementia Research Consortium. I was vice chair on the recent SIGN guidelines on dementia and can speak to how we translate research data into guideline recommendations.

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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

Dr Riccardo Manca - My background is primarily in neuropsychology and neuroimaging analysis. My main research interests and topics I am currently working on are: 1) Structural and functional neuroimaging correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in older adults with Alzheimer's disease; 2) neurocognitive decline in older adults from under-represented groups, primarily sexual minorities (project funded by the Alzheimer's Association); 3) non-pharmacological interventions for cognitive decline in multiple sclerosis and dementia; 4) alterations in the dopaminergic system in early AD.

Dr Jodi Watt - I work on a metric called the Brain Health Index, which aims to quantify brain health using various types of structural MRI. Combining different types of MRI allows us to assess different features of neurodegeneration and vascular change, features which tend to co-exist in older populations and certain conditions such as dementia or stroke. Outside of my day-to-day role, I am heavily involved in EDI initiatives within the world of MRI.

Dr Claire Lancaster - I am an Alzheimer's Society Research Fellow investigating the relationship between cognition and brain activity in individuals predisposed to future Alzheimer's Disease. My research uses a combination of behavioural assessment, MRI neuroimaging, pharmacology and cohort analyses. In addition, I work on the Alzheimer's Society GameChanger study and Alzheimer's Research UK Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Disease project - both of which explore the value of remote, digital assessment for the detection of preclinical 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

Dr Cristina Legido-Quigley - We work with omics sciences, this is mapping thousands of molecules in the body with our technology and then with data science trying to see which are the most important and change in Alzheimer’s. The next step is replenishing these molecules if they are beneficial or monitoring them if they signal a problem or a inflammatory.

Dr Petra Proitsi - I leverage genetic and multi omics (particularly metabolomics) information to enhance early dementia prediction and to find prevention and intervention targets.

Dr Maryam Shoai - I work in the Faculty of Brain Sciences on genetic data to identify predictive models for both risk of disease and progression of disease! This work has previously included exploring Nanotechnology, Materials Chemistry and Statistical Genetics. I have an interest in Big Data, Genetics, and Statistical methods for identification of risk and progression variables in neurodegenerative disorders.

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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

Dr Mark Dallas - Our research looks at non neuronal cells and the role they play in both initiating and progressing dementia. In particular we are looking at the role of microglia in regulating the inflammatory status of the drive and revealing the balance between good and bad inflammation. This is explored in the lab using a range of techniques looking at the changes in cellular function under disease relevant conditions.

Dr Richard Lofthouse - I am working on Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease. We are researching tau antibodies and their use in different combinations to determine the fragmentation profile of tau in health and disease.

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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

Nathan Stephens - I work on understanding social and economic value of scaling up community based dementia support - in a failed market place. Passionate about health equity and under and unpaid care as a justice/rights issue. I am also an unpaid care worker and working with institutions locally such as CCGs, LAs, Public Health on the Worcestershire Meeting Centres Programme.

Dr Clarissa Giebel - My research focuses on enabling people living with dementia to live well and independently at home for as long as possible, whilst addressing inequalities in accessing the right care. For this, I am working with a number of national and international collaborators, in the Netherlands, Colombia, Chile, Australia, Uganda, Poland, and UAE and have published over 90 papers in the field.

Dr Kat Algar-Skaife - Over the past twelve years, I have led and contributed to research around understanding and improving support; developing and evaluating psychosocial, physical activity, and creative interventions. I collaborate with organisations such as Age Cymru and local authorities to ensure that my research has a real-life impact outside of an academic setting. I currently lead the SENSE-Emotion project which aims to provide a deeper understanding of the experiences and emotional responses of people living with dementia engaging with SENSE-GARDEN, an immersive digital sensory room.

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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

Dr Sophia Amenyah - I am an early career research scientist and a Registered Nutritionist (UKVRN, AfN). I have a strong background in biochemical, epigenetics and the social and economic aspects of nutrition and healthy ageing. My research encompasses multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches to understanding the determinants of optimal nutrition and healthy ageing throughout the life course with specific focus on prevention of vascular diseases. My recent projects include the Healthy Brain Healthy Life project.

Hannah Hussain - My research is focused on how to best to measure health related quality of life in dementia populations for use in economic evaluations. I will be using statistical methods to understand if and how to combine outcome assessments made by the person living with dementia and a proxy (typically an informal caregiver).

Dr Raysa El Zein - I am interested in healthy ageing and especially the effect of nutrition on age related cognitive decline. My research looks into the effect of dietary induced ketosis on cognition in older adults and adults with mild cognitive impairment to reduce dementia risk.

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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

Dr Aida Suarez-Gonzalez - In my research I investigate the phenotypic variability of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. I also work on the development of neuropsychological rehabilitation and therapeutic interventions to improve patient-centred outcomes in this population. I have extensive experience in non-pharmacological RCT, co-production and development and evaluation of digital therapeutic tools. My current work focuses on the use of precision neuropsychology to optimise rehabilitation treatments for people with young onset dementia.

Zara Page - I am a 3rd year PhD Candidate at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales Australia. My current work aims to explore and compare the cultural and language fairness of face to face and computerised cognitive assessments for older adults from diverse backgrounds. I am hoping to improve the tools available for the rapid and accurate diagnosis of dementia and boost inclusion of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in dementia research.

Dr Tim Shakespeare - I lead the programme of support for the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards - helping academic researchers develop new products and services that improve later life. Prior to joining Zinc the focus of my work was using Diffusion Tensor Imaging to investigate changes in the brain's white matter that are associated with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease, including Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA). I created and directed the online course 'The Many Faces of Dementia' which aimed to give a unique insight into dementia through the stories, symptoms and science behind four less common diagnoses.

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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

Dr Coco Newton - I am a cognitive neuroscientist focused on finding ways to detect dementia earlier. In my PhD at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Alzheimer’s Society, I worked on challenging the assumption that memory decline is the first symptom of Alzheimer’s disease dementia - showing instead that navigation impairments may occur earlier. Currently I work as a research fellow within in the Alzheimer’s Research UK ‘Early Detection of Neurodegeneration’ (EDoN) initiative, identifying early-stage technologies that could provide personalised digital biomarkers of different dementia diseases.

Professor Jane Alty - I am an academic Neurologist (clinician researcher) specialising in cognitive and movement disorders. I am Co Director of the ISLAND cognitive assessment and research clinic (Tasmania, Australia). My research involves developing digital biomarkers of Alzheimers, Parkinsons and other neurological disorders.

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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

Dr Maura Malpetti - My research focusses on inflammation in frontotemporal dementia and related disorders. I use innovative brain imaging techniques and blood tests to measure central and peripheral inflammation in people living with these conditions, relating these markers to clinical outcomes and other measures for disease progression (i.e. brain shrinkage, junk proteins etc).

Zeynep Şahin - Exploring the eye as the window to the brain, with imaging and machine learning: Can Optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the retinal structure and vasculature be used to diagnose and subtype prodromal neurodegenerative disease and visual neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Scott Mitchell - After graduating and taking on various TV and theatre roles, Scott met his future wife, actress Dame Barbara Windsor, who he shared his life with her for 27 years, before she passed away in 2020.

In 2014, Barbara was given the devastating news that she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a day that would change both hers and Scott’s lives forever. Although initially kept private, Scott and Barbara went public with the news in 2018. Scott was offered support and advice, entering the 2019 London Marathon with a team of Barbara’s friends and ex-cast mates from Eastenders, known as Barbara’s Revolutionaries. Alongside Alzheimer’s Research UK, Scott raised vital funds for Dementia Revolution. To date it is the record-breaking charity partner for the London Marathon, raising over £4 million. Scott also ran the 2021 marathon, again raising more money for ARUK, which he is now an ambassador for.

Most recently Scott was massivley influential in persuading the goverment provide an extra £95m for dementia research, and start the 'Babs Army' campaign to urge more people to sign up for clinical trials in the UK via Join Dementia Research.

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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

Olga Borejko - I manage a portfolio of clinical studies and commercial trials for patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer’s disease, at Old Age Psychiatry, King’s College London. I’m responsible for setting up the studies, recruitment and completing clinical/cognitive assessments with patients. My main research interest lies within understanding better how clinical and biological markers affect the disease trajectory in DLB patients. Specifically, how biomarkers associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology affect the rate of cognitive decline in DLB patients (ENLIST-UK & EPND study, my PhD). At KCL, we are also involved in clinical trials looking at disease modifying treatments, which aim to reduce amyloid beta plaques in patients with prodromal AD (Abate study).

Victoria Gabb - I work at the Bristol Brain Centre in Southmead Hospital in sleep and dementia research, looking specifically at sleep and circadian rhythms in older adults during the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body disease compared to older adults without cognitive impairment. A lot of the work we're doing at the moment is looking at how we can identify sleep and circadian changes in the home environment using technology such as actigraphy, EEG headbands, and mobile apps.

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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

Chris Roberts and Jayne Goodrick are from Wales. Chris was diagnosed with mixed dementia in early 2012 but has not let this diagnosis get in the way of leading a full life.

He and his amazing wife Jayne, spend most of their time promoting and providing education to others about dementia. Chris regularly give talks on what it’s like to live with dementia and how research plays an important role in unlocking new treatments and better care, supported by Jayne who provides unique insights as someone living with the disease in a different way. Together they believe in dementia rights, inclusion, co-production and the promotion of better services for everyone living with dementia.

Chris is an Ambassador for the UK Alzheimer’s Society, Join Dementia Research Champion, Affiliate member of Dementia Action Alliance UK, Honorary Lecturer, Bangor University, Wales and a Member of the NICE Dementia Clinical Guideline Review Committee.

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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

Aimed at anyone with an interest in dementia (including healthcare professionals, clinicians, researchers, people living with dementia and their families), the chatathon revolved around interviewing researchers in small groups throughout the day, covering everything from prevention, diagnosis, the latest treatments, improvements in care and everything in between.

This year the event was to raise money for four amazing charities who all fund research - Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society, Race Against Dementia and The Lewy Body Society.

There is still time to donate and find out more information at http://www.chatathon.uk