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 […]
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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!
Boston University professor Ann McKee has been named one of Time Magazine’s most influential pioneers of 2018.
She is donating her brain to science, so I visited the place where it will end up.
Dr. Andrew Budson, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center Education Core and associate chief of staff for education at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, wants to help people worry less about their memories—and understand more about what’s happening inside their brains and what they can do about it.
Mr. Gussis has been poked and prodded, tested on treadmills and with memory quizzes, served fatty meals followed by blood tests. His memory, cognition, and emotional regulation have been measured and his brain waves monitored. And he went through it all for science.