➡️Don't miss Engaging Dementia's Annual International Dementia Conference!
💬This year's line-up has over 40 speakers, including a DRNI session with Dr Eimear McGlinchey @tcddublin.bsky.social speaking on dementia in Down Syndrome.
🗓️13-14 May
🗺️Athlone
ℹ️https://tinyurl.com/62yw7ney
Vaping has been linked to a higher risk of dementia.
New research found increased risk of early cognitive decline among e-cigarette users aged 18 to 25, based on cognitive screening outcomes.
Learn more: www.emjreviews.com/neurology/ne... www.emjreviews.com/neurology/ne...
#MedSky #MedicalNews
🤝Meet our speakers!
👨🔬@darraghobrien.bsky.social will speak about proteomics and neuroscience in DRNI & Dementia Trials Ireland's upcoming webinar "Dementia - Research, treatments and trials updates" this Friday, 24 April at 11 am.
➡️Register here to join: tinyurl.com/yd2mf8ua
🧑⚕️Are you a HCP working with persons living with dementia in Ireland?
🔎Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are looking for participants for a survey on how HCP's working with person living with dementia perceive Applied Behaviour Analysis strategies in dementia care.
📝Go to: tinyurl.com/4a33btkw
🗣️Speaker profile: prof Iracema Leroi, GBHI/ @tcddublin.bsky.social will speak about disease-modifying therapies in DRNI & @DementiaTrials webinar "Dementia - Research, treatments and trials updates".
Join us:
🗓️Fri 24 April
⌚️11-12
For more information & to register: tinyurl.com/yd2mf8ua
📣For our 2026 #AEAntiStigmaAward we're delighted to partner with the Alzheimer Europe Foundation, Lilly & Roche to award a European artist or initiative using music to address the stigma surrounding dementia🎵
📆 Apply by 26 June!
ℹ️More info & application form: www.alzheimer-europe.org/anti-stigma-...
🔦DRNI Trasna na dTonnta's Spotlight is on Dr Deirdre O'Shea!
🧠Deirdre is Assistant Professor & Clinical Neuropsychologist at University of Miami, focusing on cognitive aging, dementia, risk & resilience.
ℹ️Learn more about Deirdre's work & Trasna na dTonnta: dementianetwork.ie/index.php/tr...
🧑🎓DRNI's ECR Day at University of Galway saw over 60 ECRs, judges, PPI representatives & others gather for presentations & discussion.
🏆Congratulations to our winners and thanks to Dementia Trials Ireland for sponsoring the prize!
🫵See you for ECR Day 2027!
🚨DRNI & DTI are thrilled to announce our webinar "Dementia - Research, treatments & trials updates". Join Iracema Leroi @gbhi.bsky.social Antoinette O'Connor @tuh-dublin.bsky.social, @darraghobrien.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk & chair Dr Rónán O'Caoimh:
🗓️Fri 24 April
⌚️11.00
Register: tinyurl.com/yd2mf8ua
Hi Jackie, many thanks for letting us know! I have contacted the Emerald team and they suggested trying to email them again as they had not received your original email, or sending a WhatsApp message to the phone number or call. Thanks again!
🔔 Exciting opportunity to apply for a HRB @SPHeREprogramme fully funded 4-year PhD project to develop a Framework for Rehabilitative Palliative Care.
Lead PI Geraldine Foley, School of Medicine, @tcddublin.bsky.social - for more information see: www.sphereprogramme.ie/development-...
🗣️Down Syndrome Ireland, TCAID, @tuh-dublin.bsky.social & DRNI webinar "Dementia & Down Syndrome - What we know & where we are going next" takes place TODAY at 7 pm!
📝With results & info from PREVENT Dementia DS & BioMinDS & new research updates, this is one not to miss! Details below⬇️
✨Taking place tomorrow, 25th March at 7 pm - a webinar on Dementia and Down Syndrome, which will hear about new research in the area, and results from the PREVENT Dementia-DS study.
For more information and to register, please see below⬇️
Only 2⃣ days left to go! Details to register below ⬇️
🚨Webinar alert!🚨
Down Syndrome Ireland, TCAID, @tuh-dublin.bsky.social Institute of Memory & Cognition & DRNI are holding a webinar: "Dementia & Down Syndrome – What we know and where we are going next".
🗓️25th March
⌚️7pm
📍online
For more information & to register: tinyurl.com/bdcm5pde
“Machine Learning Model for Response to Internet-Delivered CBT vs Antidepressant Medication” - New research published in the journal, JAMA Network Open,
led by Professor Claire Gillan’s Lab.
Please follow the link below to read the full paper:
ow.ly/fxyB50YxLm5
@clairegillan.bsky.social
As #BrainAwarenessWeek26 draws to a close, DRNI celebrates #BrainHealth. Your brain supports you & improving your brain health improves your overall health!
🧠It is never too early or too late to start looking after your brain health.
#UnderstandTogether
🚨Webinar alert!🚨
Down Syndrome Ireland, TCAID, @tuh-dublin.bsky.social Institute of Memory & Cognition & DRNI are holding a webinar: "Dementia & Down Syndrome – What we know and where we are going next".
🗓️25th March
⌚️7pm
📍online
For more information & to register: tinyurl.com/bdcm5pde
🎓A SPHeRE PhD opportunity not to miss!
📚"Co-designing & Validating a Primary Care Minimum Data Set for the Irish Dementia Registry" supervisor Tony Foley in @ucc.ie & co-supervisors in @tcddublin.bsky.social & @rcsi.bsky.social
Info: www.sphereprogramme.ie/co-designing...
⌛️Deadline: 20th April
🧠 This #BrainAwarenessWeek, we’re celebrating research that is already improving the lives of people with epilepsy, MND/ALS, MS, and other neurological conditions while accelerating the breakthroughs still to come.
Read more: futureneurocentre.ie/brain-awaren...
@researchireland.ie
🌊Trasna na dTonnta is DRNI's network for the Irish dementia research diaspora – a network for Irish researchers based abroad who want to keep in touch, or who wish to connect to other Irish researchers based overseas.
☘️To join, or to find out more: dementianetwork.ie/trasna-na-dt...
The Lewy Lounge is a 6-week peer support programme for people who are living with, or supporting a person with, Lewy Body dementia (LBD).
The Lewy Lounge is intended to provide emotional, social, and informational support for those with LBD and their carers.
More info below⬇️
😱 Only ONE day left to submit your abstract to DRNI ECR Day!
➡️ To submit an abstract or to register to attend, go to: dementianetwork.ie/news-item/dr...
A fantastic day at the Alzheimer Society of Ireland @drni.bsky.social HRB Brain Health and Dementia Research Day at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght. Wonderful talks and great panel discussions, with a very informed and engaged audience of experts - huge congratulations to all, a brilliant event!
🧠What an amazing day we had yesterday at the @alzheimersocirl.bsky.social & DRNI event "Brain Health and Dementia: Understanding and Connection"!
👏Thanks so much to all the wonderful attendees for their interest, engagement, and participation, and to all the fantastic speakers!
😱Only ONE week left until the abstract deadline!
⌛️If you want to present your research at DRNI's ECR Day in @universityofgalway.bsky.social 09/04, submission deadline is 27th February.
➡️To submit your abstract or register to attend: dementianetwork.ie/news-item/dr...
😊We hope to see you there!
🫵Have you registered for DRNI's Early Career Researcher Day?
⌛️Time is ticking - deadline for abstracts Fri, 27th Feb!
🤝Taking place in @universityofgalway.bsky.social 09 April this is one not to miss!
ℹ️To submit an abstract, or to register to attend, go to: dementianetwork.ie/news-item/dr...
🎊 Don't miss the first-ever @alzheimersresearchuk.org–NI collaborative hackathon!
➡️Project MenoCog will explore the intersection of menopause, cognition & ageing using data from NICOLA and takes place 20-22 April in @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
ℹ️For more info: dementianetwork.ie/news-item/pr...
Christine & Matt Hurley share a powerful patient/family perspective on Lewy Body Dementia - the most common disease nobody knows about.
Their message: compassionate care starts with listening.
#NOCA2026
@drni.bsky.social @alzheimersocirl.bsky.social
🧑⚕️ @TCDGerontology are advertising a vacancy for a Lecturer Registrar in Global Brain Health, to support clinical and educational activities of @GBHI_Fellows in @tcddublin.bsky.social & @stjamesdublin.
⌛️Closing date: 18 February
ℹ️ More info: jobs.tcd.ie (search: Brain Health)