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Current trends and the renaissance of Alzheimer’s drug development

Rafaat Rahmani, CEO of Lifescience Dynamics, discusses current trends in drugs approval and why a resurgence is being seen in provision for Alzheimer's  Historically, market authorisations for neurological diseases have had significantly lower rates of success than other indications. Between 2000 to 2015, the likelihood of approval for neurological drugs (8.4 per cent) was below the mean across all indications (9.6 per cent) and far below haematology (26.1 per cent) and infectious diseases (19.1 per cent).

By |2024-07-04T17:28:59+01:0029 November 2023|Dementia|

Compassion focused therapy: Lessons from the frontline of brain injury care

Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Miles Rogish has pioneered the use of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) among patients with brain injury. In Here he speaks to NR Times about his experiences of piloting CFT at the York House centre operated by Brainkind (formerly Disabilities Trust).

What are the origins of the CFT model?

CFT is grounded in the evolutionary analysis of basic social-motivational systems. Its aim is to support mental and emotional healing.

Professor Paul Gilbert developed it because, while cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was helping a lot of people with depression, there was a large group who it simply never moved.

Through analysis he found that core beliefs around guilt and shame were keeping their emotional system dysregulated.

By |2026-02-12T08:48:54+00:0029 November 2023|Brainkind, News|
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