The talk, which is supported by the Centre for Brain Research (CBR), will be available on YouTube for those who are unable to make the event.
The following day, Friday, October 14, Dr Dudley will be at the Mātai tent at the Show to help people download the app and to answer any questions.
She will be joined by Sir Richard Faull, Professor Ngaire Kerse, Daneh Turner and Dr Jerome Maller.
New Zealand's pre-eminent neuroscientist Sir Richard (Ngāti Rahiri and Te Ātiawa) is a Mātai trustee, founding director of the Centre for Brain Research and Distinguished Professor of Anatomy at the University of Auckland.
Prof Kerse is a GP and holds the Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well at the University of Auckland.
She can help with an understanding of caring for people with dementia and the ways tikanga aligns with caring, and offer practical suggestions for carer support.
Alzheimers Gisborne manager Tracy Robinson said it was very exciting to have Dr Dudley and Sir Richard in Gisborne.
“Sir Richard Faull is the patron of Alzheimers New Zealand. We are incredibly grateful for his association with us. He has been working with families with Alzheimers for over 40 years.”
A neuroscientist of global renown, Daneh Turner, will also be coming in from Australia and will be available at the A&P Show to talk to the community about psychiatric disorders. She will also talk about GE Healthcare's (GEHC)research footprint.
Another eminent neuroscientist, Dr Jerome Maller will be visiting from Australia too. He will give a free community talk on how the brain changes during illnesses such as depression and dementia. He will present this from the perspective of brain scans and relate them to how these changes are seen in behaviour.
Dr Maller will be available to meet the community at the Mātai tent on October 14 and 15 and answer questions about psychiatric disorders.
Dr Maller is MRI Clinical Science Specialist at GEHC, based in Melbourne and is one of the key GEHC partnership team members supporting Mātai Research Institute projects. He has been involved in the rapid advancement of many imaging and brain stimulation technologies.
Part of his focus is using MRI technology to try to develop more accurate understanding of brain/mental health disorders and treatments.
He is also an adjunct associate professor at Monash University in the Department of Psychiatry, Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University, a research fellow at the University of Sydney, and honorary principal fellow at the University of Wollongong.
Dr Turner is the GE research manager for Australia/New Zealand, and a senior lecturer at Macquarie University. She is a trained biomedical engineer with an academic research background in biomechanics using imaging technology and computer simulations of orthopaedic surgery and implants to improve surgical outcomes. Her role at GE Healthcare is to facilitate research across the region.
■ Free registration is available on Eventbrite for the talks, or go to the Mātai events page for the link to the event:
