Free Webinar: Remote, unsupervised digital testing to capture cognitive change in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease
Remote, unsupervised digital testing to capture cognitive change in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease Roos Jutten, PhD Neuropsychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School When: Friday April 19, 2024; 10:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific....
Read moreNorthern Arizona University undergraduate researcher Christopher Keefe has been awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship for his role in an Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium / NAU project.
Keefe is developing open source QIIME 2 plugins for analysis of the gut microbiome in 3xTg-AD mice. The goal is for these computational methods to help answer key questions in ecology and human health. Those methods can then be...
Read moreNew England Journal of Medicine Article on Tau Positron-Emission Tomography in Former National Football League Players
This newly released article was written by first author Robert Stern, PhD; and senior author Eric M. Reiman, MD. The research consisted of brain imaging studies in former NFL players and was done in collaboration with researchers from Banner...
Read moreDementia Friendly Tempe’s 4th Annual Community Summit
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Read moreUntangling Alzheimer’s: New study unveils role of microglial cells, viral linkage in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
In their attempts to untangle the mystery of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), researchers have traditionally focused on damage to the basic building blocks of thought—the neurons. Numbering close to a hundred billion, neurons form a communications network of unmatched complexity,...
Read moreJob growth continues, research gains resume for Arizona’s bioscience sector
Arizona’s bioscience sector is adding jobs at a rate outpacing the biosciences nationally and the state’s overall private sector, while Arizona’s public universities are seeing increases in bioscience research funding, expenditures and tech transfer, a new report shows. Click...
Read moreBanner Research and ASU’s Biodesign Institute Announce Neuroscience Scholars Summer Program
Top-achieving college undergraduate and graduate science students are eligible to apply for the paid eight-week scholars program, from now until March 1, 2018. Students selected for the program will work side-by-side with some of the world’s most talented scientists, clinicians and...
Read moreUnderstanding the Consequences of Aging in Autism Spectrum Disorder
The U.S. Department of Defense Autism Research Program and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Website now highlight research by Leslie Baxter, PhD, Barrow Neurological Institute and Christopher Smith, PhD, Southwest Autism & Resource Center. Dr. Baxter’s research on...
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