About this episode

Dr Sam Moxon discusses the complex relationship between dementia and the perception of time based on personal experiences with his grandfather.

Dr Sam Moxon narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher. We tend to picture dementia as a slow decline measured in months and years, tracked through cognitive scores and longitudinal data. Sam has watched several relatives live with the condition, and from a family seat it looks nothing like a line on a graph. In this blog he writes about his grandfather, who some days could hold a full conversation and other days had no idea who Sam was. Time stopped behaving normally. It folded back on itself when a question got asked again five minutes later, stretched out as his grandfather paused to think, then collapsed entirely after long spells of apparent stability. In this blog Sam asks a question that should matter to every dementia researcher: when we say a therapy slows progression, do we mean more real time with the people we love, or just a graph that looks better? Behind every data point is an experience, and it might look nothing like the trend in our papers. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-unexpected-things-dementia-teaches-us-about-time/ -- Dr Sam Moxon is a biomaterials Research Fellow at University of Birmingham. His expertise falls on the interface…

People in this episode

Guest: Dr Sam Moxon

Topics covered

• dementia
• time perception
• family experiences
• cognitive decline
• therapies
• research

Keywords

• dementia
• time
• cognitive scores
• longitudinal data
• therapies
• regenerative medicine
• 3D bioprinting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Birmingham, Aegis FibreTech

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