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What Causes Depression?

  • Writer: Guest Writer
    Guest Writer
  • 6 days ago
  • 1 min read

We try not to shy away from the less cheerful topics here on Movers & Shakers, and this week we're once again looking at depression. We're joined in the pub by a top expert – Professor Dag Aarsland – to look at how depression affects Parkies, whether there's something specific about the condition that causes it, and what responses are available. As ever, this is a candid chat that gets to the heart of a matter which is too often left silent.


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Each week, Rory Cellan-Jones guides us between the laughs and moans in the pub. To read Rory's summary of this week's episode, click here.


Guest Biographies

Professor Dag Aarsland - Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at King's College London


Professor Dag Aarsland joined the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in January 2016, from Karolinska Institutet where he has been professor of clinical dementia research since 2011. He is renowned throughout the world in the field of Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson’s disease, but has made contributions across the spectrum of old age psychiatry.


Prof Aarsland is currently Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, in the School of Academic Psychiatry and Head of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Co-Director of Ageing Research at King's (ARK) and leads the EU-funded €21m PREDICTOM consortium to pioneer early detection of Alzheimer's Disease using an AI-driven screening platform. He is also an Affiliate Member of the UK Dementia Research Institute. 



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