Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases
This theme aims to:
- advance clinical practice in early recognition and diagnosis of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases in older people;
- assess and treat these disorders at a stage when preserving independent function and maintaining optimum quality of life remain realistic goals; and
- enable patients to benefit from the earliest possible therapeutic interventions, including risk factor modification.
We have strong links with the stroke and cardiovascular ageing and mitochondrial themes and also benefits from synergy with the Dementias & Neurodegenerative Diseases local and national networks.
The Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource (NBTR) is a particularly valuable resource underpinning our clinico-pathological and translational research studies.
You can also find out about the Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases (DemaNDs) Research Group.
Related Staff
Professor David Burn
IAH Director & Professor of Movement Disorder Neurology
- Email: david.burn@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1266
Dr Michael Firbank
Visiting Researcher
- Email: michael.firbank@ncl.ac.uk
Dr Evelyn Jaros
Honorary Senior Research Associate; Clinical Scientist in Neuropathology
- Email: evelyn.jaros@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 282 1300
Dr David Lee
Teaching Assistant
- Email: d.r.lee@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1330
Professor Ian McKeith
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
- Email: ian.mckeith@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1313
Maureen Middlemist
PA to Professor Ian McKeith
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1313
Professor John O'Brien
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
- Email: john.obrien@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 248 1310
- Professor Ian McKeith (PA - Maureen Middlemist)
- Professor David Burn
- Professor John O’Brien
- Evelyn Jaros – Biomedical Scientist
- Andrew Brown – Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer
- Nazik Nemat – Assistant Psychologist
- Michael Firbank – Clinical Scientist
- David Lee – Senior Research Associate
