Dementia Research Group in the Media
Study: Associations of anti-hypertensive treatments with Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and other dementias
Blood pressure drugs can lower Alzheimer's risk by up to 50 per cent - Taking newer blood pressure drugs cuts the risk of Alzheimer's by up to 50 per cent, British scientists say. Daily Mail, 19 October 2011
Blood Pressure Medicines to Slash Risk of Alzheimer’s - It has been revealed in a recent report that the risk of Alzheimer’s disease can be put off by a certain extent with the help of new blood pressure drugs. French Tribune, 19 October 2011
Blood Pressure Medication Could Help Ward Off Alzheimer's, Study Shows - A type of blood pressure medication could help to combat Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. The Huffington Post, 19 October 2011
Hypertension drugs may aid Alzheimer's - Hypertension drugs may aid Alzheimer's. United Press International, 18 October 2011
Blood pressure drugs could halve risk of Alzheimer's - Drugs commonly used to control high blood pressure could halve the risk of Alzheimer's and substantially reduce the chance of developing another common form of dementia, British research suggests. The Telegraph. 18 October 2011
2011
Brain donations help battle against dementia - A Northam woman is calling for more people to think about leaving their brains to help research into dementia. North Devon Gazette, 11 November 2011
Ken leaves his brain to scientists - A Bideford man who was committed to being an organ donor has donated his brain to the Alzheimer’s Society. North Devon Gazette, 12 October 2011
£80,000 for dementia research - Scientists in Bristol have been granted £80,000 to investigate a form of dementia. Bristol Evening Post, Saturday, 24 September 2011
Sufferers are key to helping others - Donations in an attempt to prevent suffering for thousands of people who might be struck with dementia in the future. Bristol Evening Post, 4 June 2011
Bristol University gets machine for dementia research - Bristol University is to carry out research into the causes of dementia with a new gene analysis machine. BBC News, 16 May 2011
2010
Discovery could help dementia - BRISTOL scientists have discovered how issues with blood flow can lead to Alzheimer's. Bristol Evening Post, 7 December 2012
Bristol dementia study gets funding boost - A major study by Bristol researchers to help doctors understand dementia has been awarded a £425,000 grant. BBC News, 21 September 2010
BRACE - Charity Video - TWO enterprising students from Filton College in South Gloucestershire used their coursework to help local Alzheimer's disease charity Brace. 25 June 2010
2008
They can have my brain - One woman's decision to donate her mother's brain for medical research and to also bequeath her own grey matter - Bristol Evening Post, 24 November 2008
Brains plea for medical research - University scientists have issued an appeal for people to bequeath their brains to help with research into Alzheimer's disease. BBC News, 13 November 2008
2006
Alzheimer's progress 100 years on - One hundred years since Alzheimer's disease was first described, scientists are still struggling to find a cure for it, a group of experts has said. BBC News, November 2006