After the IX Symposium Update on Dementia ' "http://www.fundacioace.com/upload/files/IX%20Simposi%20Dem%20HUVH%202013_CAT.pdf" Recent advances in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias', hosted last September 19 at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (HUVH), Dr. Mercè Boada, head of the Alzheimer's research group at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) and Medical Director of Fundació ACE, talked this Friday in Els Matins de TV3 about the latest advances in Alzheimer's research and the mechanisms to identify the first stages of the disease. The symposium on dementia, organized by doctors and researchers from the Neurology Service and the Dementia Unit at the hospital, together with Fundació ACE, Barcelona Alzheimer Treatment & Research Center, was also focused on the latest advances in research and drug therapies in Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment and frontotemporal degeneration, among others dementias. In this session, Dr. Mercè Boada underlined the importance of research in this field to improve the health of patients and reduce public health costs. "It is very difficult to do science. Never say it isn't worth. Without patients, we can’t do science, and without you, Alzheimer’s disease wouldn’t exist”, said to the professionals who attended the conference. On the other hand, Dr. José Álvarez, head of the Neurology and Neurovascular Unit at HUVH, highlighted the need to create multidisciplinary work teams to tackle together neurodegenerative diseases and thus, to guarantee a better efficiency of the Catalan public health system. "http://www.fundacioace.com/cat/index.php?view=1680" Fundació ACE, led by Dr. Boada, has been selected by the Alzheimer's & Dementia journal, as an international referent in the treatment and research in dementias.