Jason Warren

Our latest on a new and enigmatic, diagnostic sign in nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia, aka the 'Vicar of Dibley' phenomenon - work led by Eoin Mulroy with Chris Hardy, @volkmer_anna, @charl_marshall and friends jnnp.bmj.com/content/early/…

Pleased to share this update by @volkmer_anna, @charl_marshall and friends, identifying six of many vexing issues surrounding primary progressive aphasia link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thank God for Beethoven, his 8th Symphony in today's Record Review a glimmer of reassurance that there might be some good in our species, after the appalling events of this past week bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Now at doi.org/10.1002/alz.13…, the first staging and functional scale for primary progressive aphasia informed by patients and carers. Work led by @cjdhardy with @RareDementia and international friends gives voice to an illness that so often lacks one. May it help light the way.

Delighted this is out - a new marker of impaired real-world hearing in dementia - and a tribute to the doggedness of @jessj_siping in guiding this work through the pandemic. Congrats Jess!

More meditative and austere than its big brother, Bach's St John Passion was brought to heart-rending life tonight by @StPaulsChoir and friends. Thank you, boys.

Proud to air this pioneering and potentially game-changing work led by @cjdhardy - clinical stages and milestones for the major syndromes of primary progressive aphasia, informed by people who have lived them: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Much more to follow.

Richly deserved congrats to the brand new Dr @jessj_siping - who by rights should have been awarded at least 3 PhDs for all the projects she has led in @dementiaBBG

A call-out for Walton's gorgeous Viola Concerto, symphonically bittersweet on today's Record Review bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Delighted to join @martinstanford on @LBC this morning to mark #WorldHearingDay, talking about the complex link between hearing, brain health and dementia and our work supported jointly by @RNID, @AlzResearchUK and @alzheimerssoc

Our worlds are a matrix of pleasure and aversion but how does this change in dementia? See: doi.org/10.1093/brainc… New work led by Anthipa Chokesuwattanaskul and colleagues including @harmonyjiang, @mindmodels, @cjdhardy, @charl_marshall, @jonrohrer

What did we ever do to deserve him? That guy played by this guy (any of the 48 will do) youtube.com/watch?v=5gTA5q…

See our take on the enigmatic syndrome of right temporal lobe atrophy here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… - work led by Chris Belder with Anthipa Chokesuwattanaskul, @cjdhardy, @charl_marshall and @jonrohrer

What's it all about, then? Two riffs on this being-human gig, via @sophiescott, @wild_julian and @LaurenLayfield - The Problem, set out in some bleak and beautiful Larkin: twitter.com/wild_julian/st… ...and perhaps its best riposte: twitter.com/wejustnormalme…

Out of the darkness of primary progressive aphasia, Rory Barnes' poems pn.bmj.com/content/early/… shine a light on the blessing of speech - and how we might endure its loss

The boys of @StPaulsChoir on top form today for Faure's radiant Requiem, in memory of HMQEII. Delicate, heartfelt singing.

Delighted to share our latest on the mysterious phenomenon of phonemic restoration and how it might 'repair' speech signals in dementia: doi.org/10.1093/brainc… Work led by @jessj_siping, with @cjdhardy, the newly minted Dr Requena-Komuro and colleagues

...and saluting the astonishing courage of Marina Ovsyannikova - who joins Sophie Scholl, Lucy Hutchinson and a small band of others in lighting the way for their benighted brothers

A small escape hatch from war and loss in today's Record Review @BBCRadio3 devoted to Schubert's 'Cello' Quintet bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… If anything can redeem our species, this is it.

A heart-stopping reading of Britten’s Ceremony of Carols this evening by @StPaulsChoir - the boys reminding us how, even in a time of fear and suffering, deathless beauty is born