Aphasia is a symptom of something happening within the body. What causes it and is there treatment for it? Alan Lerner, MD, Director, Brain Health and Memory Center, UH Cleveland Medical Center, explains. 0:00 What is aphasia and how does it impact language comprehension and expression? 0:34 What causes aphasia? 0:48 Why it matters where […]

As the global incidence of neurodegenerative disorders continues to escalate, this panel will discuss how VR technology provides new methods to improve assessments and to deploy sophisticated therapeutic solutions directly relevant to our aging population. Dr. Walter Greenleaf (Neuroscientist, Stanford University), Dr. Allison Sekuler (Managing Director, Centre for Aging & Brain Health Innovation), & Chris […]

Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery residents and faculty share their research during the 2022 research fair. This year, the fair was held and recorded over Zoom. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/otolaryngology/

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered that the protein α-endosulfine (ENSA) is involved in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Studies in mice showed that eliminating this protein entirely or using drugs to block its function reduced physical changes in the brain associated with the disease and improved memory. […]

Healthcare is under a perfect storm with AI/ML being offered as a solution to relieve at least one bottleneck: making decisions and predictions. Indeed, the detection of disease, segmentation of anatomy and other classical image analysis tasks, have seen incredible improvements due to deep learning. Yet these advances need lots of data: for every new […]

This Brain Awareness Week webinar originally aired on March 16, 2022. What type of information from the outside world is processed in the occipital lobe? What type of function does the basal ganglia coordinate? What is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain? Test your knowledge, and find out the answers in the second […]

This trick to lower your Alzheimer’s Disease risk may surprise you. It’s probably more of a way of life really… More Details https://www.studyfinds.org/just-say-no-being-stubborn-rigid-may-lower-your-alzheimers-risk/ That in a report at StudyFinds – Don’t forget to Like and Subscribe below… OK… I was called a crabby old man when I turned 18 and it turns out that I […]

Pension age and the rising lifespan – how are they related? Life span throughout the developed world rises, and some countries, mostly in Europe, plan to raise the pension age because of that. It is long known that there is a positive correlation between the number of years in pension, and the extent of cognitive […]

Our bodies are inactive while we sleep, but our minds are still hard at work strengthening our memories and getting rid of waste products. Head injuries can cause sleep problems and prevent those important tasks from taking place, potentially leading to an increased risk for brain illnesses like Alzheimer’s disease. Sara Mithani Ladhani, a postdoctoral […]

Brain health expert Mylea Charvat, PhD, sat down with us at the recent StartUp Health Festival @ ViVE 2022 to talk about the launch of StartUp Health’s Alzheimer’s Moonshot. “In my many years of research around Alzheimer’s and related dementias, and my time building companies focused on brain health, I’ve never experienced this kind of momentum […]

How can we take care of our brains and why does it matter? Currently, 3 out of 5 people in the United States will develop brain disease in their lifetime and in many cases, this is preventable. Despite this, brain health is not commonly considered in preventive medicine. If this paradigm were to shift, it […]

Today Dr. Bill Bird will provides a local COVID-19 update and is joined by Dr. Ayman Alzubi (Gastroenterology, CGH Digestive Health Services). Colorectal cancer is becoming more common in younger adults. Learn about new screening guidelines and preventive measures to reduce your risk for this disease.

For anyone who has suffered or has been the caregiver for someone with cognitive decline, dementia or Alzheimer’s knows it’s an awful thing to happen to anyone. Luckily, we know SO MUCH about what contributes to this slow loss of brain function. The problem is that the damage starts decades before the symptoms. Ongoing inflammation […]

AlzeCure’s CEO Martin Jönsson presents the company at BioStock Investor Meeting in March 2022. 0:00 Welcome 0:16 Agenda 0:34 What is AlzeCure Pharma? 1:41 Business model 1:57 Pipeline of small-molecule programs 2:44 Alzheimer’s disease 3:09 Increasing patient population 3:22 Progressive and lethal disorder 4:12 Market potential 4:31 Two Alzheimer’s platforms 5:15 Alztatin- what happens in […]

Learn the essentials of psychopharmacology from Dr. Stephen Stahl! This clip from Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, Video Edition covers the mechanism of action of norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (NET). Learn more: https://nei.global/epvideos Norepinephrine is neurotransmitter with important regulatory input to the amygdala and to the prefrontal cortex and thalamus in cortico-striatal-thalamic loop (CSTC) circuits. Excessive noradrenergic output […]

Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD, scientists from Seelos Therapeutics, and regimen co-leads Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc and Shafeeq Ladha, MD presented the rationale and science behind trehalose, the investigational product being studied in Regimen E of the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial, and answered questions from the audience.

At this webinar, learn about the challenges physicians face in treating Alzheimer’s disease, what happens to the brain in patients with this disease, and current research on cell types in healthy and diseased human brains. Learn more at alleninstitute.org/BAW2022/.

The Focus on Aging webinar series addresses important topics for public health and health care professionals, aging services organizations, the research community, and other stakeholders in aging. In addition to general topics of interest for older adults and those who work with them, each webinar includes information specific to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other […]

Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher. With populations getting older, age-associated disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, are projected to place significant demands on global health systems over the coming years. There is therefore an increasing need to understand how to improve and preserve our brain health, but how can we do […]

Nutrition through the lifespan-Older Adults

This is the opening presentation from this year’s Integrative Healthcare Conference in New York, 17th February 2022. Hosted by Dr David Brady, and panellists included Dr Bruce Patterson, Dr Richard Horowitz, Dr Tom Fabian and myself. The intention was to cover the latest science and understanding of Long Covid, and what treatments are currently being […]

Catherine Kaczorowski Promotion Seminar

Did you know that 80 % of individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease have type 2 diabetes? Indeed, obesity – which then leads to diabetes and hyperglycaemia – are probably THE MOST DANGEROUS THING for your brain. Therefore, today’s video will explain the neuroscience of how obesity/diabetes/hyperglycaemia damage the brain. You will also learn which values and […]

What if we could use brain waves to treat Alzheimer’s? Professor and neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai details a promising new approach to artificially stimulate gamma brain waves using light and sound therapy, to increase connectivity and synchrony and delay the onset of this deadly disease. This non-invasive therapy has already been shown to work in mice […]

New research published in the journal ‘Nature’ now shows The reason why more women have Alzheimer’s disease than men, and specifically, that the pituitary hormone FSH has a key role in Alzheimer’s disease. But how so? Human menopause is associated with an increase in incidence, speed of progression and burden of symptoms of the neurodegenerative […]

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition that causes a slight but noticeable decline in memory or other thinking skills, also known as cognitive abilities. People with MCI have more memory or other thinking problems than would be expected from someone at a similar age, and show some decline in their cognitive skills, but these […]

Xiao-Wen Yu is a passionate neuroscientist interested in understanding how the brain works in health and disease. She is particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Xia-Wen is currently a research fellow at the University of Otago and in 2020 received a Neurological Foundation senior research fellowship grant.

There are more than half a million Canadians currently living with dementia, including Alzheimer’s, the most common type of dementia. By 2031, that number is expected to rise to close to a million. Globally, the numbers are even more shocking. By 2030, an estimated 70+ million people worldwide will be living with Alzheimer’s or a […]

Dr Claudia Manzoni is a Research Fellow at the University of Reading. She applies computer science to the analysis of large scale data to detect novel risk factors and evaluate their complex effect on the cocktail of events able to trigger disease. https://genestuffweb.wordpress.com/ Filmed at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Network Open Day 2019, John […]

A compound in beets that gives the vegetable its distinctive red color could eventually help slow the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain, a process that is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists say this discovery could lead to the development of drugs that could alleviate some of the long-term effects of the disease, the […]