Dementia Research Network Ireland

🧠Are you a care partner of a person living with LBD?

✍️The Emerald Lewy project in @tcddublin.bsky.social is inviting current/former care partners of a person with dementia to take a survey to identify support gaps & improving quality of life.

➡️See below or go to tinyurl.com/5bs9prac

🤝Don't miss "Voice in Action: Social health supports for people living with young-onset dementia" in @universityofgalway.bsky.social on October 29th!

Part of the #PPIFestival2025, this event will share research insights & personal stories of people living with young-onset dementia.

Register below⬇️

What an amazing experience #35AEC has been! DRNI really enjoyed the knowledgeable & thought-provoking presentations, innovative and insightful posters, & meaningful networking with great people. Thank you @alzheimereurope.bsky.social - and we can't wait to attend #36AEC next year in Dublin!

Creativity could be prescribed to improve brain health, study suggests Music, dance, visual arts, and even specific video games can slow brain ageing, Trinity College research finds

"Creativity could be prescribed to improve brain health, study suggests" - A new study by the Global Brain Institute is featured in the Irish Times. #Neuroscience The Irish Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/10/03/creativity-could-be-prescribed-to-improve-brain-health-study-suggests/

🚨Unfortunately, our event with @ninacarberrymep.bsky.social is postponed due to strikes scheduled in Brussels, which are expected to significantly impact transportation for both speakers & attendees.

We will communicate the new event date as soon as it is confirmed - thanks for your understanding!

🎉 #MyMovingBrain is coming to Galway – the final stop in our national series.

Join us on November 1st at the @uniofgalway.bsky.social for a day of inclusive sport, science activities, & inspiring talks on brain health and inclusivity in sport.

Register at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1754128227...

Global Brain Health Institute | Why Cultural Spaces Can Make a Difference to Your Brain Health Museums and galleries are special places where individuals and communities can come together for connection, wellbeing, and sense making. There is growing evidence that visiting cultural spaces can lo...

🎨🎭📚🧠Don't miss a fascinating webinar on brain health and cultural spaces, taking place tomorrow from the Global Health Brain Institute!

🗓️Wednesday, 17th September
⏲️14.00-15.00

➡️To registration and for more information, please go to: www.gbhi.org/events/why-c...

👏Thank you to the DSIDC for organising Advanced Healthcare Planning Day last Friday, a really important and timely event.

The day was full of informative, useful and practical talks, in the great surrounds of MISA, St James's Hospital.

🔦DRNI's Trasna na dTonnta has set its spotlight on @darraghobrien.bsky.social , neuroscientist at @ox.ac.uk!

➡️To learn more about Darragh's work in translational proteomics & neurodegenerative disease, & about Trasna na dTonnta, go to: dementianetwork.ie/trasna-na-dt...

➡️Registration is now open for DRNI & Nina Carberry MEP event "Dementia and Brain Health in Women-Barriers and Opportunities"!

🗓️14/10
⌚️12.30-14.30 CET
📍European Parliament

✍️For more information and to register: tinyurl.com/2tm524ry

🤩 We loved being part of SportAbility Day 2025 on Saturday! Our team hosted an information stand, sharing insights from past #MyMovingBrain events and connecting with the community.

We’ll be back this November with our next event in Galway – details coming soon!

@researchireland.ie

✨DRNI & TIMC were thrilled to host our symposium 'Less Common & Young Onset Dementias' on Wednesday in Tallaght University Hospital.

🤝Sincere thanks to our fantastic audience for attending, and for their great engagement and interest! Special thanks also to our marvellous speakers.

📄Survey - Developing an Integrated Care Pathway for LBD in Ireland

➡️The EMERALD-Lewy project is developing a co-produced Lewy Body Dementia integrated care pathway for Ireland.

✍️Take this survey to provide valuable insights into current practice: tinyurl.com/34vkmbpk

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#REMINDER: The Expression of Interest deadline for Global Talent Ireland is this Thursday, 28th August. Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/global-talent-ireland/

📢Join @TUH_Tallaght Institute of Memory & Cognition on 0⃣3⃣/0⃣9⃣ for a Clinical Symposium on Less Common & Young-Onset Dementia!

Target audience are HCP's involved in diagnosis &care of people with less common & YOD. Approved for CPD.

➡️To register: tinyurl.com/mrx2kzs2

The latest charity to open an EOI call under the HRCI/@hrbireland.bsky.social Joint Funding Scheme is The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. Up to €240,000 is available for projects of 24 months. The closing date for receipt of EOIs is 12/9/2025. More info hrci.ie/joint-fundin...
#HealthResearchMatters

🧠🍺Brains, beers, and banter — all in one night! Join fellow early-career neuroscientists for a pre-Neuroscience Ireland Conference Pub Quiz!
📍 Botanic Inn, 23–27 Malone Rd, Belfast BT9 6RU
📅 Wednesday, August 27, 2025
⏰ 7:00–9:00 PM

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@nsi-ecrn.bsky.social

📢 Are you a dementia researcher in the UK? Or one of the talented teams that took part in the #BioHermes001 Data Challenge? @kalliverse.bsky.social has some exciting news to share with you — all the way from the AAIC 2025 in Toronto!

More updates coming soon. 🧠

#AAIC2025 #BioHermes002

The VISION-DEAR project in @ucc.ie has created a video that highlights the value of PPI in dementia research, explores what meaningful PPI involvement looks like, why it matters, & how to get involved.

To find out more, see below - to watch this powerful & enlightening video, go to: bit.ly/4lCW7OS

Are you going to #AAIC? Why not join DRNI's Trasna na dTonnta for a reception on Monday, 28th July at 18.30 - register here to attend: t.co/uUJFFu6tmO

➡️Join Tallaght University Hospital Institute of Memory & Cognition for a Clinical Symposium on Less Common & Young-Onset Dementia!

🗓️03/09
⌚️9.30-4
📍TUH

🧑‍⚕️Target audience: HCP's involved in diagnosis & care of people with less common & YOD.

ℹ️ To register: tinyurl.com/mrx2kzs2

💡 Have you got a great idea for a grant application? Or just a desire to work amongst beautiful surroundings without interruption?

Hear from Prof Terry Quinn, Brain Health ARC Director, about our upcoming writing retreat!

✅ Deadline to register interest: 21/07/25

👉 bit.ly/4mLcom7

Resistance and resilience to Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome Due to the high prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in adults with Down syndrome (DS), trisomy 21 is now considered a genetic form of AD (DSAD). A better understanding of factors that can prevent.....

🎉Congrats to Rory Boyle (UPenn) on being ECRN's first Article of the Month for his publication: “Resistance and resilience to Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome”
Read it here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Apply next! linktr.ee/nsi.ecrn
#AlzheimersResearch #DownSyndrome

✒️Take part in @RCSI_Irl survey, "Eliciting preferences for Rapid Health Technology Assessments (rHTA) - Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)".

📋This survey aims to understand people's preferences for how rHTA should be conducted.

➡️For more info: rdc.rcsi.com/surveys/?s=T...

🌊As part of Trasna na dTonnta, we are spotlighting the Irish research diaspora!

🔦We are delighted to introduce our 1st "Spotlight on" researcher Dr Emma Devenney, neurologist at University of Sydney.

➡️To read about Emma's research & Trasna na dTonnta, go to dementianetwork.ie/trasna-na-dt...

📢DRNI are THRILLED to introduce 🌊Trasna na dTonnta (Across the Waves), an initiative to develop a network of the Irish dementia research diaspora, open to anyone with a connection to Ireland, including people who studied, trained or worked in Ireland.

Going to #AAIC? Join 1/2

New research has revealed that the RSV vaccine is linked to reduced #dementia risk. Co-led by researchers at the Centre for Human Genetics, the vaccine was associated with a 29% reduction in dementia risk following the 18 months post-vaccine 💉🧠

Find out more 👉 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/respira...

Neurocourses UK - Human Brain Anatomy Courses - Human brain anatomy course (2-day) New page

🧠What to learn more about the anatomy of the human brain? @KingsCollegeLon are running in-person and online courses on human brain anatomy this summer.

ℹ️For more information and to register, please go to: tinyurl.com/y7mr3n5m

✨DRNI were delighted to co-host with Discipline of Medical Gerontology, TCD and GBHI 'The Role of the Ageing Immune System in the Development of Delirium and Dementia'.

👏Thanks to our fantastic speakers Daniel David, Colm Cunningham, Aoife Fallon and Thomas Jackson, and to all who attended!

YouTube video by Dementia Research Network Ireland Webinar: Inclusion in dementia research

👏🤝Thank you so much to our marvelous speakers Naaheed Mukadam @ucl.ac.uk, Sarah Cullum GBHI, and Georgia Richard @tcddublin.bsky.social who gave fantastic presentations at DRNI's 'Inclusion in dementia research webinar' last week!

✨Thanks also to all who attended!

📽️: youtu.be/UHxXpFgEdvc