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PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES BI-MONTHLY DEMENTIA OPEN FORUM This forum is organised by University of East Anglia (UEA). We welcome everyone with an interest in dementia research to join UEA researchers, and guests, as they present their cutting-edge studies and findings:
Our next Open Forum is taking place on Thursday 22 June 2023 at 2pm online via Zoom. This time we will be welcoming guest speaker Professor Rob Howard. Speaker: Professor Rob Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University College London: Title: ‘‘Treating depression in dementia” Professor Howard will be giving his talk about the difficulties with the evidence for antidepressants and psychological therapies for those who have been diagnosed with dementia, and the preliminary data from the trial of Problem Adaptation Therapy. After undergraduate study at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, Professor Howard trained at the Maudsley and became Professor of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychopathology at King's College London in 2002. In 2015, he moved to the Division of Psychiatry at University College London. Please click this link to attend the event: https://zoom.us/j/93132334165 The event will be recorded and edited for our YouTube channel where you can watch previous events: Dementia Open Forum YouTube Channel. If you have any questions or would not wish to be included in the video, please let us know. We hope you'll be able to join us. |
Date: 15 May 2023, Monday
Venue: NEWSCI Building Room 0.08, UEA
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Programme
12:30 - 12:45 Arrival
12:45 - 12:50 Introductory remarks by Network Coordinator
12:50 - 13:00 ARUK introduction
13:00 - 13:10 Highlights of Dementia Research in University of East Anglia
13:10 - 13:50 Prof Li Su, University of Sheffield - "Early and differential diagnosis of dementia using multimodal neuroimaging"
~~~~~~~~~~ Data Blitz Talk ~~~~~~~~~~~
13:50 - 14:00 Catilin O’Shea, University of Essex - "Targeted protein degradation as a therapy for neurodegenerative diseases"
14:00-14:10 Yuqing Chen, University of Cambridge - "Correlation of Aβ burden to early deficits in hippocampal activity in the AppNL-G-F mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease"
14:10 - 14:20 Yizhou Yu, University fo Cambridge - "Mitochondrial folate one-carbon metabolism moderates Alzheimer’s disease pathology"
~~~~~~~~~~ Break ~~~~~~~~~~~~
14:40 - 14:50 Emily Connell, University of East Anglia - "Microbial-derived metabolites: an unexplored risk factor of age-related cognitive decline and dementia"
14:50 - 15:00 Rasha Saleh, University of East Anglia - "Impact of estrogen replacement and Omega-3 fatty acids intervention on cognition in APOE4 Females"
15:00 - 15:10 Elien Van Hout, University of East Anglia - "The role of experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in the development of anxiety symptoms among family carers of people with dementia"
15:10 - 15:50 Prof Anne-Marie Minihane, University of East Anglia - "Interventions to reduce neurocognitive decline and dementia risk"
15:50 - 16:00 Prize Presentation/End of Meeting
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