Tom Dening is Professor of Dementia Research in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences and Head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, UK. Prof. Dening studied Medicine at Newcastle University and trained in Psychiatry in Cambridge and Oxford. His interests include the epidemiology of mental disorders in older people, treatment of dementia and depression in older people, psychiatric services and other clinical topics. He has also published papers on neuropsychiatry, psychiatric symptoms and the history of psychiatry.

Alan Thomas is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are clinical studies in dementia with Lewy bodies, the neuropathology of late-life depression, and wider dementia research. Professor Thomas is also the Clinical Director of the Newcastle Human Brain Tissue Resource at Newcastle University and Director of Brains for Dementia Research.

Robert Stewart is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics at King's College London. He has a particular interest in the nexus point of physical and mental health and leads the Clinical and Population Informatics theme of the SLAM Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health. Since its inception in 2007, Professor Stewart has served as the academic lead for the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS).

John-Paul Taylor is Professor of Translational Dementia Research with the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University and an Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry with the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (NTW) NHS Trust. His research focuses on the application of neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches in understanding symptom aetiology in Lewy body dementia. Professor Taylor also leads a specialist Lewy body dementia clinic in Newcastle and works in the local memory clinic.

• 1: Doug Gray, Carole Proctor, and Tom Kirkwood: Biological aspects of human ageing


• 2: John Woulfe, Doug Gray, and Carole Proctor: The ageing brain


• 3: Ricca Edmondson: Sociology of ageing


• 4: Thais Minett, Blossom CM Stephan, and Carol Brayne: Epidemiology


• 5: Johannes Attems and Kurt Jellinger: Neuropathology


• 6: Andrea Vergallo, Harald Hampel, René S. Bun, and Simone Lista: Biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease


• 7: Robert Barber: Clinical biomarkers in the diagnosis of dementia


• 8: Abdul Hye and Latha Velayudhan: Molecular genetics/molecular biology


• 9: Jonathan Huntley, Alan Thomas, and Robert Stewart: Psychiatric assessment of older people


• 10: Sean O'Dowd: Clinical cognitive assessment


• 11: Rowan H. Harwood and Rachel Cowan: Physical assessment


• 12: Sana Suri, Vyara Valkanova, Verena Heise, Claire E. Sexton, and Klaus P. Ebmeier: Neuroimaging


• 13: Delia Bishara: Psychopharmacology


• 14: Daniel W. O'Connor, Christos Plakiotis, and Peter Farnbach: Neurostimulation therapies


• 15: John Keady and Mike Nolan: Person- and Relationship- centred care


• 16: Philip Wilkinson and Ken Laidlaw: Psychological treatments: introduction


• 17: Ken Laidlaw and Philip Wilkinson: Cognitive behaviour therapy


• 18: Philip Wilkinson and Ken Laidlaw: Interpersonal therapy


• 19: Ian A. James and Alan Howarth: Non pharmacological interventions in care homes


• 20: Tom Dening and Kuruvilla George: Principles of service provision


• 21: K. S. Jacob and Cleusa P. Ferri: Old age psychiatry in low and middle income countries


• 22: Louise Robinson and Caroline A. Chew-Graham: Primary care management of older people's mental health problems


• 23: Sube Banerjee and Nicolas Farina: Memory assessment services


• 24: Fiona Thompson and Elena Baker-Glenn: Liaison old age psychiatry


• 25: Jo Moriarty: Social care


• 26: Tom Dening and Alisoun Milne: Care homes


• 27: Elizabeth Sampson and Karen Harrison Dening: Palliative care and end of life care


• 28: Tom Dening: The experience of dementia


• 28a: Keith Oliver: Getting a diagnosis


• 28b: Louise Lafortune and Carol Brayne: Screening v early diagnosis


• 28c: Hilary Doxford: Post diagnosis


• 28d: June Hennell: The end of the journey and life after dementia


• 29: Deepti Marchment and Dennis Chan: MCI and predementia syndromes


• 30: John-Paul Taylor and Benjamin R. Underwood: Alzheimer's disease


• 31: Robert Stewart: Vascular and mixed dementia


• 32: Arvid Rongve and Dag Aarsland: The lewy body dementias: Dementia with lewy bodies and Parkinson s disease dementia


• 33: Martina Bocchetta and Jonathan D Rohrer: Frontotemporal dementia


• 34: Andrew Graham: Neurological dementias


• 35: Roy W. Jones: Pharmacological treatments


• 36: Sarah Cullum and Tesema Taye: Management of dementia


• 37: Daniel Davis, Elizabeth Teale, and Rowan H. Harwood: Delirium


• 38: Anonymous: The experience of depression


• 39: Alan Thomas: Depressive disorders


• 40: Helen F.K. Chiu, Baoliang Zhong, and Joshua Tsoh: Suicide and self harm


• 41: Lauren Mussen and Akshya Vasudev: Manic syndromes


• 42: Gerard Byrne: Anxiety disorders


• 43: Ellen E. Lee, Baichun Hou, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste: Late onset schizophrenia


• 44: Julie Gosling: Personal experience: The red and the reason


• 45: Catherine Hatfield and Tom Dening: Severe and enduring mental illness


• 46: Tony Rao and Katy A. Jones: Alcohol and substance misuse


• 47: Maria Luisa Hanney, Stephen Tyrer, and Brian Moore: Older people with intellectual disabilities


• 48: Kirstie Anderson, Zheyu Xu, Urs Mosimann, and Bradley Boeve: Sleep disorders


• 49: Bob Woods and Gill Windle: The effect of ageing on personality


• 50: Sharron Hinchliff and Bianca Fileborn: Sexuality in old age


• 51: Julian C. Hughes: Ethics and old age psychiatry


• 52: Charlotte Emmett and Julian C. Hughes: Mental capacity and decision making


• 53: Cees Hertogh, Marike de Boer, and Simone Hendriks: Ethics of living and dying with dementia


• 54: Jan Oyebode and Sahdia Parveen: Carers


• 55: Jill Manthorpe: Elder abuse and safeguarding vulnerable adults


• 56: Claudio Di Lorito and Birgit Völlm: Older people as victims and perpetrators of crime


• 57: Desmond O'Neill and Mark J. Rapoport: Driving and psychiatric illness in later life


• 58: Kay Wheat: The law relating to mental capacity and mental health