The Sacrifices of Caregiving | Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation
Posted on August 1, 2017 by Gary Joseph LeBlanc
The Sacrifices of Caregiving
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Second Memories Matter Benefit Raises Over $1 Million for Alzheimer’s Drug Research
On Tuesday, April 9, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) celebrated its second annual Memories Matter benefit event at Chelsea Piers. The event was hosted by Emmy Award-winning...
Reversibility of Age-related Oxidized Free NADH Redox States in Alzheimer’s Disease Neurons by Imposed...
Imposed extracellular Cys/CySS redox states modulate intracellular NADH levelsAge-associated oxidative stress lowers both total (bound + free) NADH levels11,18 and free NADH in neurons15 in varying proportions. To study free NADH in live neurons as a...
A Novel Nonsense Angiogenin Mutation is Associated With Alzheimer Disease
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UCSF Radiology Introduces Chris Laubenthal, MBA as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)
The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging c, MBA, as the new Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, effective July 15,...
Vascular risk factors are associated with longitudinal changes in cerebrospinal fluid tau markers and...
Fig. 1Longitudinal change in Aβ42, t-tau, and p-tau values over time by risk factor status. The panels represent the mean scores and 95% confidence intervals based on the general linear mixed model coefficients and standard...
A Faraway Place | Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation
Posted on August 7, 2017 by Norm McNamara
A Faraway Place
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T.J. Oshie and Dr. Michela Gallagher Honored at Ninth Annual Great Ladies Luncheon
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced that it has raised nearly $600,000 for drug discovery programs and clinical trials during the Ninth Annual Great Ladies Luncheon &...
A human memory circuit derived from brain lesions causing amnesia
1.Papez, J. W. A proposed mechanism of emotion. Arch. Neurol. Psychiatry 38, 725–743 (1937).2.Scoville, W. B. & Milner, B. Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. psychiatry 20, 11 (1957).3.Von...
Gene Therapy Trial for Parkinson’s Disease Uses Intra-Operative MRI-Guided Monitoring
Parkinson’s is a disease that develops in part of the midbrain known as the substantia nigra when the cells producing dopamine start to die off. (Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that...