Dementia Researcher

In this podcast Dr Mike Daniels, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh guests hosts a discussion with three researchers who know a great deal about Neurons – they discuss their research, lab life and mice challenges, the amyloid hypothesis, and the reproducibility. The healthy human brain contains tens of billions of neurons—specialized cells that process and transmit information via electrical and chemical signals. They send messages between different parts of the brain, and from the brain to the muscles and organs of the body. Alzheimer’s disease disrupts this communication among neurons, resulting in loss of function and cell death. This weeks guests are: Dr Soraya Meftah, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh. Sorya explores the Neurophysiology of dementia (synaptic, neuronal, network dysfunction). Tabitha Broadbelt, PhD Student at The University of Edinburgh. Tabitha works in the fi