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Asked by anon-188259 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 6 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-188267.
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Nadine Mirza answered on 6 Nov 2018:
Honestly, I don’t think I’ll be part of the team who will find a cure for dementia-as much as I’d love to be!
Those scientists specifically work with genes and nerve cells and how to treat and change them. I look more at how to identify the people who do have dementia and give them other kinds of help. Not a cure, but therapy to improve their life, information for them and their families, stuff like that. In future, once there is a cure, I’d probably still be involved in making sure people got a correct diagnosis so they get access to that cure.
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Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:
We have made great strides in understanding the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease, and so I think concerted efforts on 1) finding drugs addressing the molecular mechanisms, 2) effective rehabilitation involving lifestyle changes, and 3) early detection will bring us closer to tackling it.
I personally work mainly on I work on understanding how what we know about how children pay attention and learn new information in the world differs between traditional research (that typically uses just visual or just auditory etc. objects) and how information is typically presented in the real world – across multiple senses at once (“multisensory information”). However, in some collaborative project, we have recently published a study showing that you can use a simple task of detection of audiovisual stimuli to detect very early if someone has mild cognitive impairment – to some scientists, this disorder is the first step to the full blown dementia. Have a look at an article in the media and our scientific article for more info:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620125958.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27288-2
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