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- Great Minds members event 23 October 2024 - Living Well with Dementia
- Great Minds members event 16 May 2024 - The impacts of speech, music and education in later life cognition
- Great Minds members event 27 April 2024 - Dementia in the South Asian Community
- Great Minds Members Event Oct 23 - New treatments for dementia
- Great Minds members events June 2023
- Great Minds members event Oct 22
- Great Minds members' event Nov 2021
- Great Minds members' event May 2021
- Great Minds members' event May 2020
- Great Minds studies during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Great Minds Participation Panel
- Trials, studies and assessments explained
- Dementia in numbers
- Keeping your data safe
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- At the coalface for DPUK
- Power to the people: involving the public in finding a treatment for dementia
- Hope for a head start on dementia begins with cohort volunteers
- Great Minds coming together
- Changes in lifestyle can offset our genetic ‘destiny’
- What is cognition and why am I asked to complete cognitive tasks?
- World Diabetes Day: Chemical changes in blood affect risk of developing other diseases
- What it takes to launch a world-scale Alzheimer’s study
- Keeping our brains healthy to reduce dementia risk
- Coronavirus care: supporting loved ones with dementia
- New podcast: DPUK's Professor John Gallacher on the future of dementia research
- Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome: a treatable memory disorder
- Posterior cortical atrophy: a dementia that affects the vision
- Could oestrogen explain why women are more at risk of dementia?
- Sundowning: the condition with symptoms that appear at sunset
- Frontotemporal dementia: a common form of young-onset dementia
- Great Minds newsletter: April 2021
- Dementia's relationship with Parkinson's
- Diet and dementia
- Amyloid and tau: the proteins involved in dementia
- What is cognition?
- Is there a genetic link to dementia?
- Dementia terminology decoded
- Brain areas decoded
- Great Minds newsletter: September 2021
- What’s good for the heart is good for the head
- Huntington’s disease: a rare cause of dementia
- How has modern technology shaped dementia care?
- Can dance help defend against dementia?
- Corticobasal syndrome: a type of dementia affecting movement and thinking
- Great Minds newsletter: January 2022
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a rapidly progressing form of dementia
- Accessing memories through music
- How can data help prevent dementia?
- Dementia in other animals
- Great Minds newsletter: May 2022
- How are rates of dementia changing?
- Neuroinflammation: does the brain’s immune system hold the key to treating dementia?
- Dementia decoded: brain scans
- Progressive supranuclear palsy: a condition causing movement issues and dementia
- Great Minds live event: New treatments for dementia