Podcasts
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's and treatment of Dementia and how nutrition can help
Professor James Burrell and Dr Heather Francis
Today we are exploring the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, treating dementia and how nutrition can help with cognitive decline. This podcast is sponsored by Macquarie University Hospital, part of Macquarie University Health – a trailblazer in healthcare, education and research. Professor James Burrell graduated with a combined Arts/Medicine degree from the University of New South Wales in 2000. He completed basic physicians training at Prince of Wales Hospital, before progressing through ad...
Pyschotropics and dementia: effect of changing GP, with Heidi Welberry and Prof Henry Brodaty
Ms Heidi Welberry and Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty
Vol 215, Issue 2: 19 July 2021. Ms Heidi Welberry is from the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty is Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing. They discuss the association between changing GP and an increase in prescribing of antipsychotics for people with dementia entering a residential aged care facility, to accompany their research at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/...
Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, with Prof Olivier Piguet
Professor Olivier Piguet
Volume 207, Issue 7: 2 October, 2017. Professor Olivier Piguet is a clinical neuropsychologist and co-director of frontotemporal dementia research at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. He discusses behavioural variant FTD with MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
Dementia challenges and advances
Professor Nicola Lautenschlager and Dr Terence Chong
Volume 204, Issue 3: 8 February, 2016. Professor Nicola Lautenschlager, head of Psychiatry of Old Age at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Terence Chong, a research fellow and psychiatrist, discuss advances and challenges in the treatment of dementia, to coincide with their editorial in the MJA. With MJA News and Online Editor, Cate Swannell. Available as a video here.