Star and animators team up to battle dementia with short fil
The online video from Aardman Animations features former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston, whose father Ronnie died following a 14-year battle with the illness.
The 90-second film for Alzheimer’s Research UK shows an orange being stripped away to demonstrate how diseases that cause dementia physically attack the brain. The brain of an Alzheimer’s sufferer can weigh around 140 grams less than a healthy brain — about the weight of an orange.
