Respite Services for People with Dementia and their Carers.
Project Aim(s): To explore the perspectives of multiple stakeholders on respite services for dementia, with a view to informing service development in the Irish context.
Mapping Parkinson’s Disease Needs and Services in Ireland to inform Service Planning.
Project Aim(s): To support national and local Parkinson’s disease service planning by three linked work packages.
The first maps the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease and service availability for people with Parkinson’s, across each of the nine Community Healthcare Organisation regions in Ireland, to highlight mismatches between population needs and service provision.
Biomaterial-enhanced Cellular Brain Repair for Parkinson's Disease (PD).
One promising approach for the treatment of PD is cellular brain repair whereby the cells that have died in the condition are replaced by transplantation of healthy cells into the brain. However, this approach has faced several limitations including poor survival of the transplanted cells in the PD brain. To address this limitation, we have recently shown that biomaterials - that is, materials that have been specifically engineered to interact with living systems for therapeutic purposes – have the potential to dramatically improve cellular brain repair for PD.
PMSMatTrain: Novel Biomaterial-based Device for the Treatment of Progressive MS. An Integrated Pan-European Approach.
PMSMatTrain focuses on gaining a comprehensive understanding of the progressive phase of multiple sclerosis (PMS) from basics to translation, fully supported by eight beneficiaries (six research institutions and two SMEs).
Emotional Coping during Memory Loss.
To develop a self-report questionnaire that measures the fears and coping strategies that develop in response to memory loss
Rationalising Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Investigation.
Project Aim(s): To develop and assess the feasibility of a theoretically-informed, evidence-based and sustainable intervention to rationalise antipsychotic prescribing in nursing home residents with dementia.
Inter-Regional Synaptic Integration of Sensorimotor Signals within Episodic Memory Networks.
The successful treatment of memory impairments and neurodegenerative disorders critically depends on our understanding of the storage and recollection of memory episodes. Specifically, an understanding of the interaction between amnesic and neurodegenerative syndromes would aid the development of effective treatments. One of the key questions in neuroscience is: how do brain networks encode experience-dependent memory? Answering this question will give us a universal tool to treat multiple brain disorders.