Sentences with phrase «dementia research center»

DHA or fish - oil supplements aren't likely to cause any harm to Alzheimer's patients, but they aren't likely to do any good either, says Steven H. Ferris, PhD, the director of the Aging and Dementia Research Center at New York University.

We have strong ties to the Pacific Udall Center, the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, the Stanford Lewy Body Dementia Research Center of Excellence and other Stanford centers.

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Five multi-year grants were recently awarded to three research scientists at the Institute's Center for Dementia Researcresearch scientists at the Institute's Center for Dementia ResearchResearch (CDR).

At 1:30 p.m., Sen. David Carlucci will tour the Center for Dementia Research at the Nathan Kline Institute for a demonstration of the Zeiss LSM 880 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope and Leica LMD7000 — Laser Capture Microdissection System.

«Our goal is to identify people who are at the highest risk for dementia as early as possible» said study author Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Chester and Debbie Cadieux Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research and a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

A growing body of research indicates this practice could greatly increase patients» risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to Helene Alphonso, DO, Director of Osteopathic Medical Education at North Texas University Health Science Center.

Researchers at the Ludwig - Maximilians - University, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD) in Munich, Germany, have identified a brain inflammation marker in patients at early asymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease.

The Aging Brain Care Medical Home, a novel population health management program implemented in the homes of older adults achieves significant health improvement for individuals with depression and also substantial stress reduction in family caregivers of dementia patients, according to a new study by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Eskenazi Health.

«Other research has looked at midlife hypertension as risk factor for dementia,» said study corresponding author Michael D. Murray, PharmD, MPH of the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Health Services Research and Purdue University College of Presearch has looked at midlife hypertension as risk factor for dementia,» said study corresponding author Michael D. Murray, PharmD, MPH of the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Health Services Research and Purdue University College of PResearch and Purdue University College of Pharmacy.

Memory screening tests are not good indicators of dementia because they offer only a snapshot of someone's mental abilities, says John Morris, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

Preliminary research has suggested that, «if the target is to improve older adults» cognitive control, reasoning, and higher - order cognitive skills, and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's as long as possible, then maybe strategy games are the way to go,» said Chandramallika Basak, assistant professor at the Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is at the forefront of medical discovery as it relates to understanding the triggers of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia.

In a commentary accompanying the paper, Prerana Shrestha and Eric Klann of the Center for Neural Science at New York University said that the research employed a «clever strategy» and that «the potential to rescue long - term memory in dementia is exciting.»

Funding was provided by the National Institutes of Health; Bluefield Foundation, American Brain Foundation; That Man May See, Research to Prevent Blindness; National Eye Institute; Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia Research; VA Merit Awards; Alzheimer's Disease Center; Philippe Foundation; National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

It was funded by the Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia Research, Bluefield Project to Cure FTD, National Institutes of Health, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, UCSF Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Chartrand Foundation and Clinical & Science Translational Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Alzheimer's Association, Welch Foundation, and Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.

«Physical activity reduces risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke and vascular dementia,» said Giliberto, an investigator at The Litwin - Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y.

Dr. William B. Grant of the Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center (SUNARC) suggests that further investigation of possible direct or indirect linkages between vitamin D and these dementias are needed.

Dementia patients can spend years in nursing facilities, but, according to the Center for Retirement Research, the average man will spend less than 11 months in long - term care while women will spend around 17 months.