Nearly 200 people attended the annual Solomon Carter Fuller Brain Health Brunch on April 6, 2024, at TPC Wisconsin in Madison. The yearly event aims to build awareness of Alzheimer’s disease in the African American community.
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The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center supports researchers in their pursuit of answers that will lead to improved diagnosis and care for patients while, at the same time, focusing on the program’s long-term goal — finding a way to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s disease.
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Lindsay Clark, PhD, and Sterling Johnson, PhD, examined data collected through the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) and the German longitudinal study DELCODE, which determined that smartphone task performance could be used to identify those with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
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The article, published in the February 2024 issue, mentions several studies, researchers and other accomplishments from the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC).
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Nathaniel Chin, MD, discusses new therapies, early detection, screening and managing different stages of dementia for Alzheimer’s disease in a two-part video series produced by The New England Journal of Medicine.
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When researchers test motor skills, hearing, vision and smell in people in their midlife, they are better able to identify those who may develop cognitive decline or impairment 10 years later, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
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Nathaniel Chin, MD, penned a guest essay recently featured in Newsday explaining how emerging Alzheimer’s treatments raise the stakes for understanding the distinction between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.