Advancing Dementia Care National Alzheimer’s Buddies’ Fourth Virtual Symposium
Are you curious about how experts in the field are working to advance dementia care?
Are you curious about how experts in the field are working to advance dementia care?
Former weather anchorman, Jon Burnett, is facing a major health challenge and recently received a diagnosis of suspected chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
A team of researchers is quietly working on a new project that could shed more light on the correlation between contact sports and brain injuries.
Blood-based tests are relatively cheaper and less burdensome to undergo than the alternative imaging tests
NFL Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis pledges donation to Pitt’s new National Sports Brain Bank
Nearly half (47%) of the participants on donanemab (compared to 29% on placebo) had no clinical progression at 1 year (defined as no decline in CDR-SB)
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb) via the Accelerated Approval pathway for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
Anantha Shekhar,MD, PHD, Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh announced the winners of the inaugural Ascending Stars Award
Dr. Victor Villemagne, MD, a Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Leader of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s Neuroimaging Core has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Aging Mind Foundation Award.
The Clear Thoughts Foundation (CTF), a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting dementia, has awarded $200,000 to co-investigators as part of the CTF Consortium to begin preclinical research on how melatonin might affect dementia-related processes in the brain.
The Department of Aging convened a gathering of Alzheimer’s Disease researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh in a daylong forum to share and discuss their latest work in the areas of prevention, treatment and caregiving.
Gdavis Productions & Films in association with the University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center presents the free live streaming of Garrett Davis’ award winning stage play, Forget Me Not.
The aging of the U.S. population and the concurrent rise in the number of adults living with dementia underscore the urgent need for a systematic review of the available evidence for care interventions for PLWD and their formal and informal caregivers. The National Institute on Aging commissioned such a review from the Evidence-based Practice Center Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
NIH approves a $350 million Alzheimer’s and dementia funding increase for fiscal year 2020.
YMAA was charted in 2015 and is the largest youth-led Alzheimer’s 501 (c)(3) non-profit in the nation.
The disease, called LATE, seems to develop more slowly than Alzheimer’s and to appear later, when people are in their 80s and 90s.
Alzheimer’s disease impacts nearly 6 million Americans. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are working to try and figure out why and whether it can be stopped. They say it may start with a walk around the block.
What do we know about AD and how do we treat it? Dr. Jennifer Lingler and Niki Kapsambelis talk to Ken Rice and Sally Stapleton on KD/PG Sunday edition.