THE AGENDA
Opening Address
Associate Professor Tommy Wood
A systems-based model of cognitive decline and demand coupling
[Author, The Stimulated Mind.]
Professor Jonathan Stone
Amyloid – the fireman not the fire created by vascular disease and infection.
Professor Karl Herrup
The amyloid anomaly
[Author of ‘How Not to study a disease: The story of Alzheimer’s]
Professor Peter Garrard
Update on amyloid and p-tau tests for dementia diagnosis
and targets for pathology
Professor Joshua Miller
Is homocysteine causative for Alzheimer’s, and how to lower risk
Professor William Harris
Omega-3 and B vitamin interactions
Associate Professor Simon Dyall
Why phospholipids are a brain essential
Dr William Grant
Vitamin D, how much for brain protection
Professor Robert Lustig
Ultraprocessed foods and their role in dementia
Professor Jeremy Spencer
The role of plants, antioxidants and polyphenols for cognitive protection
Associate Professor David Vauzour
Microbial infection, gut and gum health and the brain
Professor Stephen Cunnane
Ketones, an essential brain fuel to support cognitive function during ageing
Dr Deborah Gordon
The role of hormones, menopause and the brain
Dr Greg Potter
Bothersome bedfellows: the two-way path from sleep to dementia, and what to do about it
Associate Professor Tommy Wood
Use it or lose it
Dr Konrad Kowalski
The Glutathione Index as a functional biomarker for oxidative stress
Patrick Holford
Nutritional biomarkers for cognition – the DRIfT study results
Dr David Perlmutter
The Five Key Brain Defenders
[author of Brain Defenders]
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