Alzheimer's Research

Objective: To determine the minimum duration of electroencephalography (EEG) data necessary to differentiate EEG features of Lewy body dementia (LBD), that is, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia, from non-LBD patients, that...

Objective: We investigated whether anticholinergic drug use was related to developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia in older adults at the population level. Methods: We used an Anticholinergic Rating (ACR) scale, Clinical Dementia Rating,...

Statistical settingThe proposed statistical model comprises three key components: an evolution model of an internal state (dynamical) variable, a likelihood function linking the observed biomarkers and cognitive tests with the state variable, and an...

John Mongan, MD, PhD, associate professor in our Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound section at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, recently published Radiology for Kids with co-authors Brandon...

Background: The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is the main risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD). Genetic variants and haplotypes in regions near the APOE locus may be associated with LOAD in the Colombian...

"We often create 3D models of patients with congenital heart disease to assist our surgical colleagues in planning their surgical approaches and interventions," says Maya Vella, MD a cardiothoracic radiologist at UCSF....

Retaining severely impaired individuals poses a major challenge in longitudinal studies of determinants of dementia or memory decline. In the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), participants complete direct memory assessments biennially until they are...

Muthayya, S., Sugimoto, J. D., Montgomery, S. & Maberly, G. F. An overview of global rice production, supply, trade, and consumption. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1324, 7–14 (2014).Article  ADS  ...

Background: Higher education consistently predicts improved late-life cognition. Racial differences in educational attainment likely contribute to inequities in dementia risk. However, few studies of education and cognition have controlled for prospectively measured early-life confounders...

Here is an important reason to stay in touch with friends and family: social isolation causes memory and learning deficits and other behavioral changes. Many brain studies have focused on the effects social deprivation...