Professors Clare Mackay and Simon Lovestone reveal details of the world’s biggest and most in-depth studies into dementia on BBC Radio 4’s World at One. Known as the ‘Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study’, they hope the broad range of tests on people in their middle ages will open up paths to early diagnosis and offer clues to effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease before major damage to the brain has been done. 
Based at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, Professor Lovestone and Mackay are part of the new NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, which aims to bring the best science to the complex problems of mental disorders and dementia.

How close are we to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s? Part 1

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