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- Trials, studies and assessments explained
- Dementia in numbers
- Keeping your data safe
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FAQs
- What is Great Minds?
- What is the aim of Great Minds?
- Why is Great Minds important?
- Who developed Great Minds?
- Who has reviewed Great Minds?
- Who can register for Great Minds?
- Do I have to join Great Minds?
- Aren't there already enough people involved in dementia research?
- How do I join?
- What happens if I decide to join?
- Are there any test involved?
- Does it cost anything to join?
- If I have memory problems can I join?
- How long will it take to sign up?
- How do I manage my account?
- I forgot my password what do I do?
- Why didn't I receive confirmation of my registration?
- I've forgotten my username/password what do I do?
- How will I know when to take the memory and mood tests?
- What sort of research will I be volunteering for?
- Can I choose which studies to be involved in?
- Are there any risks in participating?
- Will I be reimbursed for taking part?
- What will happen to the results of the clinical trials?
- Are there benefits from taking part?
- Are trials safe?
- How long will it be until I am matched?
- Will I be contacted for trials by pharmaceutical companies?
- Will taking part in studies be kept confidential?
- How will researchers use the information I supply?
- Will my family doctor/GP be informed of my participation?
- How secure is my data?
- How have patients and the public been involved in Great Minds?
- What will happen if I don't want to carry on with the Great Minds?
- What if there is a problem?
- Who do I contact?
- How long do the online assessments take?
- At the coalface for DPUK
- Power to the people: involving the public in finding a treatment for dementia
- Hope for a head start on dementia begins with cohort volunteers
- Great Minds coming together
- Changes in lifestyle can offset our genetic ‘destiny’
- What is cognition and why am I asked to complete cognitive tasks?
- World Diabetes Day: Chemical changes in blood affect risk of developing other diseases
- What it takes to launch a world-scale Alzheimer’s study
- Keeping our brains healthy to reduce dementia risk
- Coronavirus care: supporting loved ones with dementia
- New podcast: DPUK's Professor John Gallacher on the future of dementia research
- Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome: a treatable memory disorder
- Posterior cortical atrophy: a dementia that affects the vision
- Could oestrogen explain why women are more at risk of dementia?
- Sundowning: the condition with symptoms that appear at sunset
- Frontotemporal dementia: a common form of young-onset dementia
- Great Minds newsletter: April 2021
- Dementia's relationship with Parkinson's
- Diet and dementia
- Amyloid and tau: the proteins involved in dementia
- What is cognition?
- Is there a genetic link to dementia?
- Dementia terminology decoded
- Brain areas decoded
- Great Minds newsletter: September 2021
- What’s good for the heart is good for the head
- Huntington’s disease: a rare cause of dementia
- How has modern technology shaped dementia care?
- Can dance help defend against dementia?
- Corticobasal syndrome: a type of dementia affecting movement and thinking
- Great Minds newsletter: January 2022
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a rapidly progressing form of dementia
- Accessing memories through music
- How can data help prevent dementia?
- Dementia in other animals
- Great Minds newsletter: May 2022
- How are rates of dementia changing?
- Neuroinflammation: does the brain’s immune system hold the key to treating dementia?
- Dementia decoded: brain scans
- Progressive supranuclear palsy: a condition causing movement issues and dementia