The earlier the detection the better the ability to treat. This is the theme for Springfield Symposium, one of the world’s largest Alzheimer’s conferences to be held in Stockholm this week. – Nowadays, we can detect pathological changes as early as age 50. Soon, perhaps we can see them already in 20 - 30 years old, says the conference leader and SBP-member Professor Agneta Nordberg.… →
A report released 11th April by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) calls upon governments, policymakers and other stakeholders to make dementia a global public health priority. The new report, compiled by experts around the world, among them Swedish Brain Power members Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad and Miia Kivipelto, provides the most authoritative overview of the… →
A brand new concept called “drug discovery unit” that will fill the gap between basic research and development of new drugs to win the war against Alzheimer’s disease. That’s what the research network Swedish Brain Power is starting in conjunction with leading researchers from Astra… →
The Swedish government’s announcement on new rules to facilitate register research is welcomed by scientists and doctors in the Swedish Brain Power. – It is very gratifying, says Maria Eriksdotter, head of the dementia register SweDem, and Anders Wimo, which among other things,… →
Swedish Brain Power’s director Bengt Winblad will, together with Kaj Blennow, Gothenburg, and Philip Scheltens, Amsterdam, lead a major new research collaboration within the EU on biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases. The cooperation involves researchers from 22 countries and have a budget of over 90… →
To incipient Alzheimer’s can be detected much earlier than previously thought is confirmed by another study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry. The research team behind the study includs a number of researchers linked to the Swedish Brain Power network from both… →
The Swedish Brain Power researcher and co-author of the World Alzheimer Report 2010, Anders Wimo, interviewed in Nature about the crippling development of dementia in the world: Dementia: A problem for our age : Nature : Nature Publishing Group. →
One of the world’s leading ALS researcher and member of Swedish Brain Power network, Peter Munch Andersen, has received the former Swedish tv-profile Ulla-Carin Lindquists Award with the following motivation: “Peter Andersen’s research has a width that spans clinic, genetics and fundamental experiments. It… →
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