London taxi - Credit: Unisouth on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
London taxi - Credit: Unisouth on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3. A UCL-led research team will be studying London taxi drivers' brains and whether they could uncover clues to help understand Alzheimer's disease. Funded by Alzheimer's Research UK and Ordnance Survey, the study is recruiting London taxi drivers and looking at a specific part of the brain - the hippocampus - that is involved in memory. It is often one of the first areas damaged in Alzheimer's disease. Participants who can, will have an MRI scan to look at the structure of the hippocampus. All taxi drivers in the study will do a navigation task to test their ability to plan routes through London. They will also be asked to complete some questionnaires after this.
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