Persistent impact of housing loss on cognitive decline after the 2011 Great East Japan...
We previously established that housing loss and residential dislocation in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami was a risk factor for cognitive decline among older survivors. The present study extends the follow-up of survivors...
Have a Backup Plan | Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation
Posted on August 21, 2017 by Gary Joseph LeBlanc
Have a Backup Plan
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Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Announces the First Diagnostics Accelerator Award Recipients
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced today the first group of researchers who will receive funding through its Diagnostics Accelerator, a new research program that aims to...
Apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer disease: pathobiology and targeting strategies
1.Lambert, J. C. et al. Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer’s disease. Nat. Genet. 45, 1452–1458 (2013).2.Alzheimer’s Association. 2018 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures. Alzheimers Dement. 14, 367–425 (2018).3.Serrano-Pozo,...
Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders
Wells, Jennie L., BSc, MSc, MD, FACP, FRCPC, CCRP*,†; Pasternak, Stephen H., MD, PhD, FRCPC†,‡,§Early onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD) is a neurodegenerative dementing disorder that is relatively rare (<1% of all Alzheimer cases). Various...
CT Lung Cancer Screening: How Vivid Images are Reducing Lung Cancer Deaths
A chest computed tomography (CT) scan finds a lung nodule; what is the significance of that?
Brett Elicker, MD, chief of Cardiac & Pulmonary Imaging at the UC San Francisco Department...
Biopsychosocial frailty and the risk of incident dementia: The Italian longitudinal study on aging
Over a 3.5-year follow-up, participants with BF showed an increased risk of overall dementia (hazard ratio : 2.16, 95% confidence interval :1.07-4.37), particularly vascular dementia (VaD) (HR: 3.21, 95% CI: 1.05-9.75). Similarly, over a...
A BRAND NEW DAY IS BORN
Posted on September 26, 2017 by Norm McNamara
A BRAND NEW DAY IS BORN
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Thirteenth Connoisseur’s Dinner Recognizes Core Funders of Its Diagnostics Accelerator
On Thursday, May 30, the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) held its Thirteenth Annual Connoisseur's Dinner at Sotheby's in New York City. Hosted by nine-time Emmy award-winning journalist...
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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...