Hearing loss and dementia
Hearing impairment that is caused by the natural process of aging is called age related hearing loss. Of the various types of hearing loss, age related is the most common type, affecting people from...
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What if there was a test that would tell you if you’re going to get Alzheimer’s?
If there was a test that could diagnose Alzheimer’s before the onset of symptoms, would you take it? Most people indicate they’d rather not know. But what if we could intervene in the earliest...
“You don’t look like you have Alzheimer’s disease”
A few weeks ago, I developed a cough. I went to the doctor, they checked everything out and sent me home. But I wasn’t getting better. I started to worry when the cough got...
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...
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).”...
