{"id":2397,"date":"2018-07-06T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzheimer.noemi.lu\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:20:24","slug":"craig-ritchie-presents-epad-at-the-3rd-uk-dementia-mri-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ep-ad.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/06\/craig-ritchie-presents-epad-at-the-3rd-uk-dementia-mri-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Ritchie presents EPAD at the 3rd UK Dementia MRI conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd UK Dementia MRI conference took place at the Howard Conference Centre, Downing College in Cambridge from 5 to 6 July. The event attracted PhD students, junior post-doctoral and clinical researchers and offered an interactive session for junior scientists to present their work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The objectives of the conference were: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To discuss the state-of-the-art multimodal MRI techniques.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To communicate\/present novel MRI techniques that allow imaging of white matter microstructure and highlight the utility of these techniques in detection of early dementia pathology.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To discuss extension of imaging research into the preclinical space.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To discuss novel ligand-PET work.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To discuss the role of bioinformatics in imaging research.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To discuss issues relating to multi-site imaging.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">To stimulate new research collaborations among dementia researchers in the UK.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">On 6 July, Craig Ritchie did an oral presentation entitled \u201cEPAD: the European Prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease study<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">He presented an overview of the project, the progress done so far and highlighted the national and international collaborations. 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