The Oxford Handbook of Adult Cognitive Disorders is an up-to-date, scholarly, and comprehensive volume covering most diseases, conditions, and injuries resulting in impairments in cognitive function in adults. Topics covered include normal cognitive and brain aging, the impact of medical disorders and psychiatric illnesses on cognitive function, adult neurodevelopmental disorders, and various neurological conditions.
The discovery, when further developed, could ameliorate or cure AD
Development Project Grants Request for applications Alzheimer’s Disease Development Grants The Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (BU ADC) Is Soliciting Proposals for Pilot and Feasibility Studies Application Deadline: January 11th, 2019 New proposals or initiatives for biomedical, epidemiological behavioral, legal, ethical, health systems or other research in Alzheimer’s disease are encouraged. Two NIH funded […]
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan was the first president to designate November as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, while President Bill Clinton first designated November as National Family Caregivers Month in 1997.
After 10 years of studying brains donated by families of deceased military servicepeople, football players, and other contact-sport athletes, researchers from the BU School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System have amassed more than 600 brains, a collection they say has grown large enough to enable meaningful analysis of the genetics related to […]
NAM is made up of more than 2,000 international members elected by their peers, for outstanding achievements in medicine.
The goal of this study is to identify novel biomarkers to distinguish CTE, PART, AGD, ARTAG, and AD.
Congratulations to BUSM Assistant Professor of Neurology and BU ADC Faculty Member, Hugo Aparicio, MD, MPH, for being among the eight faculty chosen to receive a Career Development Professorship Award.
Study follows mounting evidence of association between repetitive head impacts and CTE
Congratulations to Dr. Ann McKee who was just announced as the recipient of the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Research at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Chicago!