Melissa Parra Torres, a PhD student at the University of Dundee, wants to help find new ways to diagnose dementia and slow its progress.

Dementia Research Leader Kamen Tsvetanov is working to understand brain resilience and how the brain adapts to change.
 

Research into changes that are common to different types of dementia could point to similar ways of treating them.

Understanding more about what makes some people more likely to develop dementia can help us to reduce future risk. 

Establishing how oral health and dementia are linked could point to better prevention and care. 

Meet Naaheed Mukadam, who connected South Asian community members with her dementia research through a ‘Music, Meaning and Memory’ event.

Meet researchers in Belfast who hope that understanding changes in the eye could improve Alzheimer’s diagnosis and more. 

Meet Professor Amrit Mudher, whose research uses fruit flies to understand how tau protein changes in Alzheimer’s.