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Wicking Dementia Centre

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: 17 Liverpool Street 7001 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: www.utas.edu.au/wicking

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24.01.2022 Education May Be Protective for People With Gene for Familial Early Onset Alzheimer's (American Academy of Neurology)

23.01.2022 Wicking Dementia Centre in the News: "Nurses and carers who support residents with dementia in the Carinity Kepnock Grove aged care community’s memory assisted area are completing courses from Dementia Australia and the Wicking Dementia Centre, through the University of Tasmania".

23.01.2022 LifeTime and improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine (Nature)

23.01.2022 How dementia-friendly are we? Patricia Karvelas talks to Wicking Dementia Centre director Prof James Vickers about the need for cities and homes to be inclusive or dementia-friendly Click on the link to listen to the interview https://www.abc.net.au//dementia-friendly-housing/12695046

23.01.2022 New Tracer Gives Clear Picture of Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias (The Scientist)

22.01.2022 Webinar: A life-course approach to dementia prevention by Dr Edward Hill & Dr Maree Farrow Catch our free lunchtime webinar tomorrow, 22nd September 2020 at 12pm! You can register now by clicking on the image below.

21.01.2022 Scientists advance understanding of blood-brain barrier health with implications for brain disease (Virginia Tech)

20.01.2022 Remote cognitive testing with older people with hearing and vision impairment (Trinity College Dublin/Dementia Academy)

19.01.2022 Streamline your writing and collaborations with these reference managers (Nature)

19.01.2022 Genetic variability of memory performance is explained by differences in the brain’s thalamus (Nature News and Comment)

19.01.2022 World Alzheimer Report 2020: Design, Dignity, Dementia: dementia-related design and the built environment https://www.alz.co.uk/media/200921

19.01.2022 Australian College of Nursing Aged Care Nursing Scholarships: Postgraduate. If you are ready to take your career to the next level and specialise through postgraduate study, this is the perfect opportunity for you! You can pursue your career goals through a scholarship for a Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters. Please visit https://www.acn.edu.au/schol/aged-care-nursing-postgraduate For information about the Wicking Dementia Centre Master of Dementia Program please visit https://www.utas.edu.au/wicking/mdem

18.01.2022 Telehealth: Improving Dementia Care (National Institutes of Health/USA)

17.01.2022 Working together to address common challenges for European neurodegeneration research: Neuronet hosts four sessions at #30AEC https://www.alzheimer-europe.org//Thursday-22-October-2020

17.01.2022 Depression worsens over time for older caregivers of newly diagnosed dementia patients (University of Michigan)

16.01.2022 Vitamin B1 deficiency a key factor in the development of alcohol-related dementia (MedUni Vienna)

16.01.2022 The Long Road to Dementia (Universität Tübingen, Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung (HIH), Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE))

15.01.2022 Three ways to collaborate on writing (Nature News and Comment)

14.01.2022 The best time to argue about what a replication means? Before you do it (Nature)

14.01.2022 Older adults with severe apathy, or lack of interest in usual activities, may have a greater chance of developing dementia than people with few symptoms of apathy (American Academy of Neurology)

13.01.2022 Brain’s immune cells put the brakes on neurons (Nature News and Comment)

13.01.2022 Probing fine-scale connections in the brain (Nature News and Comment) Artificial intelligence and improved microscopy make it feasible to map the nervous system at ever-higher resolution.

12.01.2022 Wicking Dementia Research: Validation of a Chinese version of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.15533 #dementia #alzheimers #chinese #knowledge #healthcare

12.01.2022 Research confirms link between sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s disease (RMIT)

11.01.2022 Neurodegenerative gene’s function is not all about those bases (Nature)

11.01.2022 A gut hormone, ghrelin, is a key regulator of new nerve cells in the adult brain (Swansea University)

11.01.2022 Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age -Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

10.01.2022 Join us for our first Wicking Dementia Centre Seminar Series webinar. The webinar is held on the 22nd of September 2020 at 12-1pm. It is free and fully online, please click on the image below for more details.

10.01.2022 Here at the Wicking Dementia Centre, we want to support people with dementia and their carers by focusing on the cause, care and prevention of the major diseases underlying dementia. A condition which has robbed so many people of precious time with those they cherish. Please consider giving to support the work of the Wicking Dementia Centre. https://www.utasalumni.org.au/wickingcentre

10.01.2022 Brain’s immune cells put the brakes on neurons (Nature)

09.01.2022 Results of 2 surveys on how care needs are met in aged care (Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission) Please visit https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/publicatio/research to read the research papers

09.01.2022 Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking (Nature News and Comment)

09.01.2022 Have you ever had questions about medicines? We are seeking input on the areas that matter the most for future research in the field of medicines and dementia. Tell us what you think! We would like to hear from:... People living with dementia Carers, family members and friends of people living with dementia Healthcare professionals (including students) and/or staff members of healthcare organisations who have any experience providing or facilitating care for people with dementia Participation in this study will involve filling in an anonymous questionnaire. It will take you about 5-10 minutes. To be eligible for this study you need to be at least 18 years old and Australian OR living and/or working in Australia. For more information and to complete the questionnaire online go to: Quality Use of Medicines in People Living with Dementia: Determining research priorities https://www.unisa.edu.au//our-re/optimising-medicine-use/ OR for a paper copy with reply paid envelope to be sent to you, contact Dr Emily Reeve, Phone: 08 8302 2757 or E-mail: [email protected]

09.01.2022 ‘White Matter Lesion’ Mapping Tool Identifies Early Signs of Dementia (NYU Langone Health)

08.01.2022 Disease progression modeling of Alzheimer’s disease according to education level (Nature News and Comment)

08.01.2022 Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre: Lateral entorhinal cortex lesions impair both egocentric & allocentric objectplace associations https://journals.sagepub.com//fig/10.1177/2398212820939463? #research #memory #brain #neuroscience #psychology #education #science

08.01.2022 Save the date! On Saturday, October 3, presenters from around the globe will mark World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week by sharing information, helpful resources and updates on FTD through a free daylong program. https://www.worldftdunited.net/marathon

08.01.2022 Are infections seeding some cases of Alzheimer’s disease? (Nature News and Comment)

08.01.2022 Organizing a virtual conference changed the way we think about academic exchange (Nature)

07.01.2022 Light-activated neurons deep in the brain control body heat (Nature)

07.01.2022 Thank you for attending the webinar on Tuesday. For those who had missed the webinar, thank you for getting in touch and being so patient. To view the recording of "a life-course approach to dementia prevention" webinar, please click on the image below. #dementia #webinar #alzheimers #research #risks

07.01.2022 Did you enjoy our webinar? If you wish to enrol in the Preventing Dementia Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), please visit https://mooc.utas.edu.au/course/22

06.01.2022 Develop your dementia knowledge as you incorporate your personal experiences into all study areas, making the program relevant and up-to-date. Apply now to start in February 2021 https://www.utas.edu.au/wicking/mdem Our online postgraduate program is aimed at graduates and professionals currently working within, or building their expertise in, a field related to dementia.

05.01.2022 Unlocking the mystery of tau for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (Nagoya University) http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp//unlocking-the-mystery-of-tau-for

03.01.2022 Education may be protective for people with gene for familial early onset Alzheimer's (American Academy of Neurology)

03.01.2022 Live imaging method brings structure to mapping brain function (MIT)

02.01.2022 Wicking Dementia Centre Research: Green spaces, dementia and a meaningful life in the community: A mixed studies review https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S1353829220300617

01.01.2022 The Preventing Dementia Massive Open Online Course opens next Tuesday 6th October 2020. Join 16,000 participants in this free and fully online course. To enrol, please visit https://mooc.utas.edu.au/course/22