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She raised more than £2,000 for the PSP Association.On October 14th, 2017, Patricia Vazquez Rodriguez finished her first half-marathon in Thessaloniki, Greece to raise money and awareness for patients with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and the PSP Association. She managed to raise £2000.33!

Two new PhD students have started in OctoberMaura Malpetti and Alicia Wilcox have started their PhD studies in our group in October 2017.

The meeting brought together researchers in the UK working on frontotemporal dementia and associated disorders.Date: Friday 29th September, 2017Location: 33 Queen Square, London, UKOrganizers: Dr Jonathan Rohrer (University College London), Professor James B. Rowe (University of Cambridge) and Professor Stuart Pickering-Brown (University of Manches…

An interview with Professor James B. Rowe for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).An interview with Professor James B. Rowe for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).Publication: 28th September 2017Link to interview

Patricia Vazquez Rodriguez will be running her first half marathon to raise money for the PSP Association and PSP patients.Patricia Vazquez Rodriguez is a PhD student working on Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) in our group. PSP is a terrible neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure.As research is really expensive, she dec…

The FTD Carers' Meeting took place on September 13th, 2017 at the Herschel Smith Building. The FTD Carers' Meeting took place on September 13th, 2017 at the Herschel Smith Building.Anjela Jones informed about claiming benefits, Professor James B. Rowe presented current research updates, and a carer gave an informal talk about their experience of ca…

Emily Fisher, a postgraduate student at Norwich University of the Arts, created a short animated movie "Misplaced in Space" featuring an individual’s experience of Alzheimer’s disease in order to present scientific research findings in a way that mediates understanding of the illness.​Norwich University of the Arts was presenting the final exhibiti…

Thomas E. Cope has been awarded the second prize in the 2017 Mansell Prize competition of the Medical Society, London. Thomas E. Cope has been awarded the second prize in the 2017 Mansell Prize competition of the Medical Society, London.  When: June 2017

Team members will present their work at the Study Day of the PSP Association.Some members of our group will present their research at the Annual Study Day of the PSP Association in Milton Keynes.When: 18th October 2017

Team members will present their work at the Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium.Our research team will present several posters at the 6th Cambridge Neuroscience Biennial Symposium. It is a two-day international special symposium focusing on "Neural Networks in Health and Disease"When: 7th-8th September 2017Where: West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge an…

A video abstract has been published for the article of Lansdall et al., (2017) in Brain. Reference:Lansdall, C. J., Coyle-Gilchrist, I. T., Jones, P. S., Vázquez Rodríguez, P., Wilcox, A., Wehmann, E., ... & Rowe, J. B. (2017). Apathy and impulsivity in frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes. Brain, 140(6), 1792-1807.Links:https://www.youtube.…

A video abstract has been published for the article by Hughes et al., (2015) in Brain. Reference:Hughes, L. E., Rittman, T., Regenthal, R., Robbins, T. W., & Rowe, J. B. (2015). Improving response inhibition systems in frontotemporal dementia with citalopram. Brain, 138(7), 1961-1975.Links:https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/7/1961/254706/Im…

Dr Kamen Tsvetanov has been awarded a prestigious British Academy Fellowship.Dr Kamen Tsvetanov has been awarded with the prestigious British Academy Fellowship for his work on 'multi-level integrative network dynamics', to examine why some people age successfully and other experience a decline in cognitive function.

James B. Rowe has published a book "A short guide to brain imaging".Together with Richard E. Passingham, Professor James Rowe has published a book with the title "A short guide to brain imaging" in October 2015. ISBN: 0198709137Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford

The group has recently published new results in the "Brain" and "BMJ Open"Most recent publications from our groupBevan-Jones, W. R., Cope, T. E., Jones, P. S., Passamonti, L., Hong, Y. T., Fryer, T. D., Arnold, R., Allinson, K. S. J., Coles, J. P., Aigbirhio, F. I., Patterson, K., O'Brien, J. T., & Rowe, J. B. (2017). [18F]AV-1451 binding in vivo m…