🌍 The WFN ADCD Biennial Meeting will be in Noosa Heads, Australia, 19–22 Feb 2026. 📢 Call for proposals: abstracts (oral/poster) & symposia. ⏳ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 📧 [email protected] and [email protected] Join us in #Noosa2026!

People with #PCA, #PPA and #bvFTD get a life-changing diagnosis but little evidence-based tailored information. The @uclbrainscience.bsky.social -led BELIDE trial, tests an online post-diagnostic educational programme co-designed with families to fill this gap💻👉: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...

📢Registration now open: Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity & Consent in Palliative Care Research ✅Hear research findings ✅Identify research gaps & priorities ✅Opportunities to collaborate & contribute 📆 17th Oct 📍 RCP, London 🔗 www.capacityconsentresearch.com/palliative-c... 1/2

Honoured to have joined African colleagues in Nairobi last December as Chair of WFN ADCD for the Dementia & Brain Aging in LMICs 2024 conference. 200+ delegates united to advance dementia research, prevention & care. Our piece now live in World Neurology: worldneurologyonline.com/.../from-nai...

Having a positive mental attitude could help protect against memory loss, finds new 16-year study 🧠 @dramberjohn.bsky.social et al. analyzed data from more than 10,000 over 50s and say lower psychological wellbeing could be a sign of oncoming cognitive harm. spr.ly/60184ppVo

🧠 Join our free webinar on Telehealth for Neuropsychological Interventions! 🗓️ May 27 (5pm EDT | 11pm BST) 🗓️ May 28 (8am AEST) 🎙️ Wong, Power & Goldberg on virtual cognitive, comms & behavioural therapy. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Next Wednesday I will be talking at the International Behavioural Neurology Rounds about cognitive sequelae post Covid-19 🦠 Come and join us! @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @nrsigwfnr.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @baycrest.bsky.social

The first randomised controlled trial testing the effectiveness of rehabilitation in #PPA is out—and it’s a landmark study with major implications for the field of dementia rehabilitation. Here’s why: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

JUST PUBLISHED: An international comparison of longitudinal health data collected on #LongCOVID 🌏 Josephine Exley, Edmund Stubbs, Raphael Wittenberg + Nicholas Mays analyse 17 datasets from nine countries. 📊 READ NOW: doi.org/10.1186/s129... #HealthSystems #Healthdata #COVID19

RECAP: Measuring what matters - The Complexities of Cost-Effectiveness in Policy and Research 🔍 On 25 March, @joselele.bsky.social, Cate Henderson, Derek King + Magda Walbaum were joined by 140+ participants for a webinar on #EconomicEvaluations. 💷 WATCH NOW:👉 youtu.be/8J-NvRAi29A?...

The inaugural International PPA Awareness Day is this Friday April 4th! Join a webinar hosted by the National Aphasia Association. aphasia.org/event/intern... @ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social

Today, 4 April 2025, is the 1st ever Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) awareness day! Free UK webinar today: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes... Missed it? A recording will be on our website: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes... @annavolkmer.bsky.social @rosemary-townsend.bsky.social

Just discovered our article on the WFN ADCD biennial meeting in Japan was chosen as World Neurology Editors’ Choice! 🥳 I love this group photo from the event, which now decorates a bookshelf in my home. @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social Full article here: shorturl.at/yVWl8

Honoured to attend the World Dementia Council Summit 2025 in London as Chair of the WFN ADCD. A pleasure to join WFN president Prof Grisold & dear friends & ADCD executive committee members Prof Suvarna Alladi & Prof. Raj Kalaria. @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social

REWIND: Catch-up on this GOLTC webinar on #rehabilitation services for Young-onset Dementias 🎥 On 28 November, we heard from @aidasuarez.bsky.social, Viviane Amaral-Carvalho + Faheem Arshad - bringing together perspectives from different countries. WATCH IT BACK NOW: goltc.org/goltc-webina...

No lo iban a ver igual. Gracias, RTVE. Gracias, Xabier Fortes. elpais.com/television/2...

Mentiras fáciles de desmontar. cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

"7,291" is an extremely well produced documentary about the deaths of 7,291 care home residents in Madrid during COVID-19, after the Madrid government unlawfully denied them transfer to hospital. This is the greatest human rights violation in the history of Spain’s democracy: shorturl.at/OIscJ

What a smashing way to celebrate #IWD2025! In just one week, the DRC at @uclqsion.bsky.social had not 1️⃣ but 2️⃣ inaugural lectures from new female professors @jbar-uk.bsky.social & @cathmummery! 💪🎉 Testament to their strength, talent & leadership. Onwards & upwards! 🚀 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Thankful for my amazing women peers, mentors and friends this #internationalwomensday #iwd @jbar-uk.bsky.social @rachiscahill.bsky.social @nicolahobbs.bsky.social @aidasuarez.bsky.social @drmbocchetta.bsky.social #womeninscience #stemwomen

I can´t believe it´s been 5 years since this. Five years and £7 million in donations later, the new Rare Dementia Support Centre will finally become a reality in autumn 2025 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

🚀 The Rare Dementia Support Centre opens in autumn 2025, launching a new era in post-diagnostic care for: 🔹 PCA 🔹 PPA 🔹 FTD 🔹 LBD 🔹 Familial Dementias Can´t wait to help make this place thrive. Watch this space for updates 👀 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #RDSC: bit.ly/4hKYVrb

At the Dementia and Brain Ageing in LMICs 2024 conference, our @wfneurology ADCD group hosted a session featuring talks by @thbaketal, @freedman_morris, @drstelabel, Elena Tsoy & @pkalexopoulos, covering cognitive diversity, telehealth, auditory function & rehabilitation 🌏

Just in time for Christmas, some reading for you! Open access article re: costs of support workers and difficulties with recruitment post Brexit and covid @blimeysimon.bsky.social @neilmcrowther.bsky.social @babicmorg.bsky.social @dralysonnorman.bsky.social journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/10....

Honoured to represent the WFN Aphasia, Dementia & Cognitive Disorders SG at the Dementia & Brain Ageing in LMICs 2024 conference in Nairobi. An incredible event advancing dementia care & research in LMICs. Grateful to the organisers for driving global progress 🌍 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Thrilled to attend the launch of Africa-FINGERS at the Dementia & Brain Aging in LMICs conference in Nairobi! 🌍 Led by Dr. Chi Udeh-Momoh, it adapts proven FINGERS interventions to African contexts, tackling dementia with local diets, cultures & unique risk factors. #AfricaFINGERS #Dementia

From today, @nihr.bsky.social funding applications must demonstrate how research addresses health & care inequalities. A vital step for inclusive, impactful science. 🌍📊 Learn more: www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/inclusion-no...

Fantastic. Thank you. We have a Google calendar accessible via Alexa. And a button that Mum can press that says, "Alexa, what's in my diary?" It's one of those recordable buttons. We also have one by the front door that says where I am, in case she gets anxious.

JOIN US ON THURSDAY for an exciting webinar on rehabilitation for young-onset #dementia. 🗨️ The session will feature presentations from @aidasuarez.bsky.social, Viviane Amaral-Carvalho + Faheem Arshad. REGISTER NOW:👉 lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social

🚨The call for abstracts for #NRSIG2025 is now live. Submit here before 23 Feb 2025 ⬇️ www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

📢Join us📢 at our upcoming webinar introducing the CONSULT e-learning on trials involving adults with impaired capacity to consent - plus an opportunity to ask our expert panel about key challenges you encounter! 📆5th Dec 🕑2-3pm 🔗register tinyurl.com/2s3nmbz7 #InclusiveResearch #Inclusivity

Looking to better manage your research data while advancing #openness? Check out UCL’s revamped Research Data Management page! Learn to plan, store & share data responsibly to make it discoverable, reusable and impactful. Training on data plans available! buff.ly/3UYSMhW #FAIR #AcademicSky

I’m honoured to be launching this comprehensive briefing paper on FND neuropsychological and psychological management, across the lifespan, with a UK focus but global relevance - thanks to my fantastic colleagues on the Division of Neuropsychology Policy Unit working group 👏👏👏

I have added lots of new folks to this #neuropsychology starter park. Happy to add more, just message me. Please spread the word :) go.bsky.app/VV4ZhEx

I was honoured & delighted to take up my new role as chair of the World Federation of Neurology Aphasia, Dementia & Cognitive Disorders Specialty Group last spring in Japan 🇯🇵. I look forward to my first conference as a WFN representative in Nairobi in 3 week´s time 🌍 www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...

Brain Health and Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Our World Federation of Neurology Aphasia Dementia and Cognitive Disorders SG biennial meeting in beautiful Japan, now featured in World Neurology: worldneurologyonline.com/article/brai...

Brain Health and Cherry Blossoms 🌸 Our @wfneurology Aphasia Dementia and Cognitive Disorders SG biennial meeting in beautiful Japan, now featured in World Neurology: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/brain-health-and-cherry-blossoms/ @alladi_suvarna @UCLBrainScience

🚨 Delighted to announce that our article "Cognitive Rehabilitation for Posterior Cortical Atrophy" is out 🚨: https://pn.bmj.com/content/early/2024/11/07/pn-2024-004259.full Immensely grateful to my co-authors for their expertise & passion & @PracticalNeuro for supporting its...

🚨UPCOMING WEBINAR🚨: Join us on Nov 28th at 13.00 UK time in the presentation of "Rehabilitation Services for Young-onset Dementias: examples from High and Low-Middle Income countries": https://tinyurl.com/pcwr6t8r @GlobalObLTC Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/bdhmh6uz

I just learned that our "Rehabilitation Services for Young-Onset Dementia" paper is cited in the #Wikipedia pages about: - #PosteriorCorticalAtrophy - #Frontotemporaldementia - #Primaryprogressiveaphasia - #Earlyonsetdementia https://ucl.altmetric.com/details/164831213/wikipedia

Drew Nagele @PCOMeducation talking about school-based neurolearning interventions 4 students with #ABI: "cognitive rehabilitation can be done by any discipline who has specific training in #CognitiveRehabilitation". & "Assessment should lead directly to intervention" @INSneuro

Anna Adlam @CANexeter about the TOPS digital health intervention to support adolescents (& their families) following #ABI. Currently investigating implementation of TOPS in the UK and planning for sustainability.

What makes SENS? a social-emotional training for adolescents with #Noonan syndrome beautifully presented by Renée Roelofs and Mandy Mostert-Kerckhoffs from Centrum Voor Neuropsychiatrie Now, at the @INSneuro webinar organised by the #NeuropscyhologicalInterventions SIG

@bivianoanders fascinating talk about the evidence backing the importance of working with the whole family system of children with #ABI and how to deliver these interventions. #webinar #NeuropsychologicalInterventions @INSneuro

We are kicking off!!

🚨 Join us for this @INSneuro "International Perspectives on Paediatric Neuropsychological Interventions" webinar on 🗓️Wednesday, October 16th! 🚨 With 🇦🇺 Vicki Anderson 🇺🇸 Drew Nagele 🇬🇧 Anna Adlam 🇳🇱 Mandy Mostert & Renee Roelofs 🌍 Register here: https://dir.lat/fWC4hv

You can watch here @manuelrico presentation of our essay for @AlzDisInt #WorldAlzheimerReport about how unlawful #discriminatory triage protocols led to thousands of avoidable deaths among care home residents in #Spain during #Covid19: https://youtu.be/NesqCLNfAvI?t=1451

💡¿Por qué importa que hablemos sobre la #demencia? 💡 ➡️ En este artículo para @_infoLibre explico lo que sabemos sobre #prevención, diagnóstico, tratamiento, sensibilización y estigma: https://dir.lat/oxL1J2#demencia#prevención🙏Me...

Link to the full report here: https://www.alzint.org/u/World-Alzheimer-Report-2024.pdf

@manuelrico and I have written an expert essay for @AlzDisInt World Alzheimer Report about the sad events that took place during the Covid pandemic in care homes affecting many people with #dementia: https://shorturl.at/F7k5k#dementia 1/2