This 7-minute background primer introduces dementia, caregiving, and Alzheimer’s as public health issues. It was designed to familiarize viewers with these concepts ahead of the webcast, Contact Tracing: Special Considerations for Dementia which featured expert speakers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Alzheimer’s Association.
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Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to...
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Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
Degenerative Dementias and Their Medical Care in the Movies
Compared with other neurologic problems, few films have been dedicated to degenerative dementia. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review about the...
