Overall the report aims to clarify whether our call for increased research expenditure in dementia is still relevant and how much so. And indeed it is: compared with the number of people developing dementia – one every 3 seconds – the amounts devoted to research are tiny. For a start there isn’t enough original research. The global ratio of publications on neurodegenerative disorders versus cancer is an astonishing 1:12. At the same time, not enough people are getting into research on dementia. While there are many reasons for this, it is not surprising, given that it has been 40 years since
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