Alzheimer's Research

As the population ages, the need to characterize rates of cognitive impairment and dementia within demographic groups defined by age, sex, and race becomes increasingly important. There are limited data available on the prevalence...

Human brain samplesHuman postmortem tissues from control and AD patients were obtained from the Netherlands Brain Bank (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands). Written informed consent for brain autopsy specimens for research purposes after...

Memory loss, behavioural changes, cognitive deficits: Alzheimer's disease leads to a dramatic loss of autonomy for those affected and has a heavy impact on health costs. Its prevention has become a real social challenge....

One solution to this frustratingly common scenario is to retrace your steps. This can be done by physically moving through the space where you suspect your elusive keychain is hiding or, as explored in...

We are excited to congratulate Amanda Baker, MD, for receiving the Charlotte and Thierry Huisman Travel Grant Award. Dr. Baker, a Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology Fellow at the UC San Francisco...

The next time you're struggling to remember exactly where you left your keys, parked your car or put down your glasses, don't necessarily give up on your memory completely. Previous research has shown that,...

People living with HIV (PLWH) have increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures. As PLWH live longer through effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) we see that HIV-related bone loss is superimposed upon...

Columbia Engineering neuroscientists identified a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory. The team demonstrated that high-frequency brain waves in the amygdala, a hub for...

In this study, we expanded previous hypothesis-driven MRI subtyping studies in DLB by conducting a data-driven MRI subtyping. We included a relatively large multi-center cohort including countries from Europe and the US. We found...

López-Otín C, Blasco MA, Partridge L, Serrano M, Kroemer G. The Hallmarks of Aging. Cell. 2013;153:1194–217. ...