Tagged: dementia research
Reflections on 2014 Advocacy Day in Sacramento
On March 4, more than 130 “ordinary” Californians — all touched in some way by Alzheimer’s disease — convened in Sacramento for the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual Advocacy Day. We came from across the state,...
New Every Day Technologies for Alzheimer’s Care Grant: Dr. Gallagher-Thompson, Stanford University
Just last week, we awarded a special type of grant we call an Every Day Technologies for Alzheimer’s Care grant to Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ph.D., professor of research in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral...
Record $122 million increase for Alzheimer’s disease signed into law by President Obama
At the urging of the Alzheimer’s Association and its more than 600,000 advocates, the funding bill signed into law January 17 by President Obama contained an unprecedented $122 million increase for Alzheimer’s research, education,...
New Local Research Grants Awarded
The Alzheimer’s Association is the largest private, nonprofit funder of Alzheimer’s research and we are proud that so many of the world’s leading Alzheimer’s innovators can be found right here in our own back...
Research in the news: A test for Alzheimer’s that you can take online?
Many of you have seen headlines in the news that imply there is a new online test for Alzheimer’s disease. Created by researchers at Ohio State University, the test was made available online and...
Research in the news: Alzheimer’s and Vitamin E
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published an article describing the results of a clinical trial of vitamin E and memantine in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Here is...
New Investigator Grant: Dr. Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford
We recently awarded a New Investigator Grant to Jin Hyung Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Bioengineering for her study “Direct Network Visualization of Alzheimer’s Drug Efficacy Using optogenetic functional MRI (ofMRI).”...