Almost 280 000 Australians suffer from dementia and Charles Sturt University (CSU) researcher Dr Adam Hamlin will discuss what happens to the brain as we age at a free public lecture in West Wyalong on Thursday 25 October. Dr Hamlin, from CSU’s School of Biomedical Sciences, will outline current breakthroughs in our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, and what scientists are doing to find potential treatments for these conditions. “One of the greatest challenges of modern neuroscience is to understand what happens to the brain as we age and why it becomes vulnerable to diseases such as Alzheimer’s,” he said. “At the moment there’s no cure and no drugs that slow the progression of the disease. If we are going to find a cure or a treatment we must be able to detect it early.” A National Health and Medical Research Council Fellow, Dr Hamlin is carrying out research to discover more about brain cell death in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Read more on CSU News here.