ABHAD

This study aims to investigate how hearing ability changes in healthy ageing and in Alzheimer’s disease.

Previous research has shown that people with Alzheimer’s disease have a build-up of abnormal proteins in the brain which affects normal brain function. As the same proteins also build up in the hearing (auditory) system, it is expected they would affect the response to sounds.

Researchers want to investigate how sounds are processed along the auditory pathway in healthy ageing people and in people living with Alzheimer’s Disease. Better understanding of the changes that take place, and when they occur, will help predict who is at increased risk of developing dementia.

This project has been funded by Deafness Support Network and the National Institute for Health Research Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR BRC).