Memory Lab

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the @HWMemoryLab! We're signing off now until the start of 2021. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the lab's work over the past year, including our collaborators, research students and participants!

Look out for us in this month’s Spotlight Magazine too, where @MCraigHCN discusses some of his current research and need for people aged 60+ in the Edinburgh to help with his study!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from @HWMemoryLab! We’re signing off until the new year, so many thanks to everyone who has contributed to our lab’s work this year! We look forward to seeing you in 2019!

Our keynote speaker for the day, Professor Charlotte Clarke, delivering an excellent talk titled ‘Alive with dementia’, which discusses the social experience of living with dementia and how and why attitudes toward dementia must change #HWDRS18

“What about dementia in the workplace?” Professor @MikeDanson1 discusses the issues associated with a dementia diagnosis for someone’s employment and the implications in the workplace #HWDRS18

Great talk by @kgambierross researching the experience of people with dementia ‘going out’ and feeling safe in familiar and new environments #HWDRS18

@ratkorad kicks off the final section of the event with a talk about developing sensitive measures of demotivation in people with dementia #HWDRS18

@ShanStrickRes discussing her virtual reality study that examined how different real world conditions affect memory consolidation #HWDRS18

What are the advantages of using EEG in dementia research? @jescrod discusses how this method can play an important role in uncovering new insights into dementia #HWDRS18

Elana Bertram is delivering an interesting talk on the outcomes of her @alzheimerssoc UG summer bursary project using mobile EEG methods. #HWDRS18

Lewis Killin now speaking about the role of the @ScotBHR in facilitating dementia research across Scotland.

Next up is @GregorySarah who is discussing the @IMI_EPAD project. #HWDRS18

Great first talk to open #HWDRS18 by Anna Smith and Kate MacGowan of the @alzheimerssoc highlighting the important role that people affected by dementia can play in dementia research.

Looking forward to welcoming our @alzheimerssoc network volunteers today for a tour of the lab and a peak at the first data collected by @MCraigHCN as part of his current Alzheimer's Society Research Fellowship. Here's to an exciting day! @heriotwatt_soss @HWPsych @HWU_RES

...and our new paper on 'capturing real-life forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia via an incidental memory test' with @ZemanLab is now also available at: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @HWPsych @ExeterMed

Our new paper on accelerated long-term forgetting with @Sharon_in_TIME and @ZemanLab is now available at: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @HWPsych @ExeterMed