News articles tagged ‘Research’

Alzheimer Scotland’s Dementia Research Centre publishes its first research paper

On World Alzheimer’s Day 2011, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon officially opened our Dementia Research Centre; an exciting new initiative…read more »

Nicola Sturgeon opens new Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre at The University of Edinburgh

On World Alzheimer’s Day, Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, officially opened…read more »

Alzheimer Scotland to launch brand new research centre

Alzheimer Scotland will be opening a new Dementia Research Centre, which will be led by Centre for Cognitive Ageing and…read more »

Statistics: Number of people with dementia in Scotland 2013

Download To print or save these statistics – Statistics: number of people with dementia in Scotland 2013 (pdf) Approximately 86,000…read more »

New European research indicates higher numbers of people with dementia than previously thought

New research from the EuroCoDe (European Collaboration on Dementia) project, financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Alzheimer Europe,…read more »

Self Directed Support (Direct Payments) for People with Dementia

Alzheimer Scotland is undertaking a research project to find out how social care can be made more responsive to the…read more »

Alzheimer Scotland welcomes TauRx breakthrough

Alzheimer Scotland welcomes the results of this Phase 2 study on a new treatment for dementia by TauRx Therapeutics Ltd….read more »

Alzheimer Scotland welcomes promising early findings from tarenflurbil study

Alzheimer Scotland welcomes the recent findings from Professor Gordon Wilcock’s randomised phase II trial of tarenflurbil in patients with mild…read more »

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