Titans of Science: Tara Spires-Jones
About this episode
Tara Spires-Jones discusses her research on neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease.
Titans of Science returns with Tara Spires-Jones, a world-leading neurobiology researcher and Director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She studies the mechanisms and reversibility of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative brain diseases. We explore Tara's path to neuroscience, the history and biology of Alzheimer's, and treatments developed to overcome it. Tara has been speaking with Chris Smith. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
People in this episode
Host: Chris Smith
Guest: Tara Spires-Jones
Topics covered
- neurobiology
- Alzheimer's disease
- neurodegeneration
- brain diseases
- research
Keywords
- neurobiology
- Alzheimer's
- neurodegeneration
- brain sciences
- treatments
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Edinburgh
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