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An Insider's Look: Alzheimer's Disease
While there is no cure or effective treatment yet for Alzheimer’s disease, spreading awareness and knowledge can bring science one step closer to unraveling its mysteries.
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Untangling the Link Between Head Injuries and CTE
Autopsies of American football players’ brains built our current understanding of the hazards associated with repeated blows to the head.
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Debunked: Do Neurons Die as We Get Older?
Neuroscientist John Morrison explains what really happens to our brain cells as we age.
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The Short Answer: What Causes Dementia?
Neuroscientist John Morrison untangles the misinformation around dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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What Brain Banks Can Teach Us About Alzheimer's
Research at the Calgary Brain Bank bridges the gap between exploratory animal models and human clinical trials. It may also upend decades of thinking about Alzheimer’s in the process.
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The Fibers That Slow Down the Brain
Billionths of a meter thick yet tough as silk or steel, these unwanted threads are hard to destroy.
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Music as Therapy
People with dementia can still recognize their favorite tunes, even when they remember little else leading researchers to investigate the potential of music therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Building the Blocks of Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness
Learn about recent Alzheimer’s Disease research and discover classroom resources covering the basics.
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Figuring Out Why Alzheimer's Disease Strikes More Women Than Men
Most people don’t know the staggering sex disparity amongst Alzheimer’s patients: two-thirds of those patients are women. Why?
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The Sleep-Deprived Brain
A new study now shows that just one night of sleep deprivation results in the accumulation in the brain of a protein implicated in Alzheimer's
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The Language of Dementia
New research suggests that language tests could aid early diagnosis of debilitating dementia.
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Huang Yu: Researching Alzheimer's Disease
Huang Yu is Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Medical Center. In this video he explains the plaques and tangles behind Alzheimer’s Disease.
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