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Tom Dening

Professor of Dementia Research
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Nottingham
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Tom is the head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at Nottingham. With over 20 years experience as a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, he is currently an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Tom has extensive NHS management and leadership experience.

Technischbewirkt Dummheit (technology-induced stupidity)
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 January 15, 2025
It scarcely needs saying that we live in a technological age. The microchip dominates our lives. There is very little that you can do or organise without using a computer or a smartphone, and often you need both, for example...
Crossing the tracks: a professional and personal journey
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 November 15, 2024
This is a story in three parts, from clinical experience to research and finally to lived experience participation. I shall describe three types of public engagement and how one has led to another. Clinical work with patients of necessity engages...
Book review: American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
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 November 9, 2021
Book review: American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society By Daniel R. George & Peter J. Whitehouse Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2021, pp 404, ISBN 9781421440477 I was asked to supply a review of this book for the publisher, but...
World Alzheimer Report 2021: Journey through the diagnosis of dementia
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 October 19, 2021
Alzheimer’s Disease International has been producing annual reports for over a decade and they provide a most valuable resource, with up to date worldwide figures on dementia and providing a welcome global perspective. Each report is themed, for example looking...
Hyperbaric oxygen
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 September 16, 2021
By which we mean the medical use of oxygen delivered at greater than atmospheric pressure. It involves the use of a special pressure chamber, which may be for an individual or sometimes it is a larger room that will accommodate...
Cups of tea
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 September 16, 2021
This is a fun subject but also an important social ritual. The dried leaves of Camellia sinensis infused with very hot water make a delicious drink, as we all know. Tea has both a long history and plenty of cultural...
Maigret and memory
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 May 10, 2021
Between 1931 and 1972, the French writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) published 75 novels featuring the celebrated Detective Chief Inspector Maigret. Simenon was incredibly prolific and produced several hundred books, though it is through Maigret that he is best known. There...
Sleep duration and the risk of dementia
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 April 21, 2021
As dementia results from changes in the brain, it is unsurprising that people with dementia often have disrupted sleep patterns. Changes in sleep pattern may occur before a person has enough other symptoms to acquire a diagnosis of dementia. Previous...
The Centre for Dementia Blog Competition 2020
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 September 1, 2020
The Centre for Dementia is based at the Institute of Mental Health on the University’s Jubilee Campus, and it is one of several mental health research groups based there. The Centre focuses on interdisciplinary research, mainly in psychosocial aspects of...
Deaths outside hospital
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 April 15, 2020
It is worrying that there appears to be a sharp increase in deaths in the community that are not known to be due to covid-19. (The Office of National Statistics just reported an increase of over 5000 deaths in the...
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