• January 17, 2018
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

What are the features, associations and treatments for sleep apnoea. VIEW ALL VIDEOS

• January 17, 2018
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

Discover the features, associations and treatments for restless legs syndrome. VIEW ALL VIDEOS

• January 16, 2018
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

So many patients spend their day sleeping.  Listen to the causes and treatments for this tricky symptom. VIEW ALL VIDEOS

• January 15, 2018
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

Disrupted overnight sleep can occur for many reasons.  Listen here to some of the common and potentially reversible causes of fragmented...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Dementia

Alzheimer’s disease is the commonest dementia that we know. Again it’s a disease of the brain that’s associated with ageing. There...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Dementia

Classically, when we look down the microscope at someone who has Parkinson’s disease and look at their brain, we can see...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Dementia

Vascular Dementia often comes into our thinking when we’re looking at some patients with dementia. And what we’re seeing with Vascular...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Dementia

Frontotemporal Dementia is probably one of the leading causes of younger onset dementia. Patients being affected from their 30s to their...

• September 7, 2017
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

People often confuse, and come up to me and ask what’s the difference between having Parkinson’s Disease or Lewy Body Dementia....

• January 16, 2018
• JP
• Dementia

Sleep-wake disturbances are common in Alzheimer’s disease and can lead to great distress.  The most frequently seen phenomenon is sundowning where...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Dementia

The genetics of Alzheimer’s disease are a little bit more complicated. Unfortunately, we don’t see a very clear pattern in Alzheimer’s...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Parkinson's and Mimics

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy is a Parkinson mimic. To look alike, either in a typical Parkinson or a Parkinson Plus syndrome. So...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

One of the challenges with these diseases of the brain, is that there can be a bit of a stigma attached...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Dementia

Treating Alzheimer’s Disease is very challenging. Unfortunately, we don’t have very effective therapies that improve memory, but the strategies that we...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Parkinson's and Mimics

We talked a bit about the medications for Parkinson’s disease and how effective they are. Patients often say to me “Will...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• DementiaParkinson's and Mimics

Probably the most common question I get asked by support groups and people in general is “Is this disease of mine...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Parkinson's and Mimics

Our treatment for atypical Parkinson’s Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Multiple System Atrophy, Corticobasal Syndrome, Vascular Parkinsonism is much harder. In these...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Parkinson's and Mimics

One of our strategies for treating Parkinson’s disease is to trick the brain by giving patients a dopamine agonist, and dopamine...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Parkinson's and Mimics

In more advanced cases of PD, what we’d really like is for the dopamine to hang around for a bit longer,...

• September 8, 2017
• JP
• Parkinson's and Mimics

One of the other strategies that we have that can treat Parkinson’s disease is to allow the dopamine that’s in the...