Emily Spencer - From Dreading My Thesis to Loving Writing
Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.Plenty of PhD students would say writing is the part they dread most, and Emily said exactly that at her PhD interview. With submission ...
24 Sep 6min
Dr Clíona Farrell - Forty years of dementia progress; how many more to go?
Dr Clíona Farrell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.In 1986 Carol Jennings, a teacher from Coventry, answered an appeal in the Alzheimer's Society newsletter with a letter and a hand-d...
22 Sep 7min
Dr Becky Carlyle - How not to lose the plot when you lose a postdoc
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.Every good lab trains people who then leave it, and in this blog Becky writes about what that costs the person left behind.The first ...
17 Sep 11min
Beccy Owen - 10 Things My PhD Has Taught Me So Far
Beccy Owne narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.Beccy, a PhD student at the University of Warwick studying how tau disrupts ion channels in Alzheimer's disease, is nearly halfway through ...
16 Sep 8min
Jacqui Kerr - Returning to My Roots: Visiting a Memory Café
Jacqui Kerr narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.Jacqui manages a research network. Most days that means teams, partnerships and delivery pathways. Then she drove north to a memory café i...
9 Sep 5min
Rahul Sidhu - My Grandad’s Story: Why I Became a Neuroscientist
Rahul Sidhu narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.Rahul is a regular Dementia Researcher blogger, usually writing about life as a PhD student and his work on heart disease and dementia. Th...
7 Sep 12min
Dr Yvonne Couch - Brain Drain: The Controversy Around Glymphatics
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.Yvonne got pulled into an accidental group chat argument with colleagues about whether the brain's glymphatic system actually exists, ...
3 Sep 14min
Dr Emma Law - pTau217 Blood Test for Alzheimer's: What the FDA Clearance Means
Dr Emma Law narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.The FDA has cleared Roche's Elecsys pTau217 blood test to help identify amyloid pathology in people aged 55 and over who are already showi...
2 Sep 14min
