Outputs (4)

Dementia: Your questions answered and lion's mane mushrooms in the lab (BBC Inside Health) (2025)
Digital Artefact

BBC Radio 4 show examining the science behind health matters. I was interviewed as part of a show on Alzheimer's Disease, due to my work looking at therapeutic potential of Lion's Mane mushroom (a Partnership PhD with the Bristol Fungarium)

Differentiation of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells using retinoic acid and BDNF: A model for neuronal and synaptic differentiation in neurodegeneration (2024)
Journal Article

There has been much interest in the use of cell culture models of neurones, to avoid the animal welfare and cost issues of using primary and human-induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived neurones respectively. The human neuroblastoma cell line,... Read More about Differentiation of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells using retinoic acid and BDNF: A model for neuronal and synaptic differentiation in neurodegeneration.

Supporting families to adjust following a dementia diagnosis: Adapting the LivDem intervention (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

“Everyone says that thinking about death is unthinkable. But I think dementia is a bit unthinkable too. How can you think about losing your mind?”​
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A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem model of talking about dementia for couples a... Read More about Supporting families to adjust following a dementia diagnosis: Adapting the LivDem intervention.

Human stem cell-derived ventral midbrain astrocytes exhibit a region-specific secretory profile (2023)
Journal Article

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Human stem cell-derived astrocytes exhibit region-specific heterogeneity in their secretory profiles’, by Clarke et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa258) in Brain.