18 March 2004

Nutrition and Alzheimer’s Disease

A Royal Society of Medicine, Food & Health Forum open meeting - Tuesday 23 March, the Food and Health Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine in association with The Alzheimer’s Society will hold a meeting on ‘Nutrition, Cognition and Alzheimer’s’. The programme will touch on various issues relating to lifestyle choices and the effect on cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients.

For more information about the topics to be discussed, please contact the RSM Press Office.

• B vitamins, homocysteine and brain atrophy in relation to cognitive decline
• Professor A David Smith, University Department of Pharmacology, Oxford
• Childhood intelligence, environmental factors and later dementia
  Dr Lawrence Whalley, University of Aberdeen
• The challenge of dementia
  Professor Colin Blakemore, Medical Research Council
• The Food for Thought project
  Professor Jill Manthorpe, The Alzheimer’s Society