Old Age Psychiatry & Dementia
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
- Number of academic staff: 28.
- Number of research students: 8.
Members of the Department work to develop new treatments and to find ways of getting the best for our patients from treatments that are already available. We are a friendly and motivated team who welcome collaboration and are keen to train the next generation of researchers in our field.
Members of the Department’s team carry out biological and clinical research that we believe will have important impact upon our understanding of dementia and other mental illnesses that affect older people and lead to the development of better treatments. We do this by working in close collaboration with the IoP’s Department of Neuroscience, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration and Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health (www.slam.nhs.uk/brc).
Our research into the basic biology of Alzheimer’s disease, the clinical features and aetiology of psychosis in later life and the conduct of randomised controlled trials is internationally regarded. We have a particular commitment to the conduct of high quality independent clinical trials because the results of these can impact positively upon the availability of effective treatments.
Ongoing Department projects:
- Biomarkers and recovery from delirium
- Brains for Dementia Research
- DOMINO - AD
- ECT versus rTMS for major depression
- Management of agitation in dementia
- Plasma based biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease.
