IU Center
for Aging Research investigators have developed and validated the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit 7 — the CAM - ICU - 7 for short — an easy - to - use delirium severity instrument that scores delirium on a scale of 0 to 7 — mild to severe delirium — and is useable with all ICU patients, including those on mechanical ventilation.
Not exact matches
American Federation
for Aging Research AFAR Research Grants The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of aging rese
Aging Research AFAR Research Grants The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of aging r
Research AFAR
Research Grants The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of aging r
Research Grants The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior
investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of
aging rese
aging researchresearch.
Disparate Data The most interesting
research «attracts new
investigators,» says J. Taylor Harden, assistant to the director
for special populations at the National Institute on
Aging of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Screening
for colorectal cancer based on
age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by
investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center
for Clinical Management
Research.
Dr. Boustani is the founder of the IU Center
for Innovation and Implementation Science, deputy director of the IU Center
for Aging Research, an IU School of Medicine professor and a Regenstrief Institute
investigator.
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.
Most people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory - affecting conditions also get aggressive, agitated, depressed, anxious, or delusional from time to time, says senior author Helen C. Kales, M.D., head of the U-M Program
for Positive
Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Health System and
investigator at the VA Center
for Clinical Management
Research.
«As the world's population
ages, it is becoming increasingly important to develop ways to support successful prospective memory functioning so that older adults can continue to live independently at home without the need
for assisted care,» said Nathan Rose, lead
investigator of the study and now a
research fellow in the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.
To conduct this
research, Newgard and his OHSU colleagues, in addition to
investigators from UC Davis and other centers in the western United States, reviewed data from nearly 50,000 injured children
aged 19 and younger
for whom 9 -1-1 emergency medical services (EMS) were activated over a three - year period in five western regions: Portland, Ore.; Vancouver, Wash.; King County, Wash.; Sacramento, Calif.; Santa Clara Calif.; and Denver, Colo..
«Our study shows that this unique stem cell - based retinal implant thus far is well - tolerated, and preliminary results suggest it may help people with advanced dry
age - related macular degeneration,» says coauthor and lead inventor of the implant Dr. Mark S. Humayun, MD, director of the USC Institute
for Biomedical Therapeutics, co-director of the USC Roski Eye Institute, affiliate principal
investigator with the Eli and Edythe Broad Center
for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell
Research at USC and university professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School.
Dr. Elizabeth Samelson, Associate Scientist, Institute
for Aging Research, and Principal
Investigator of the study, explains, «The commentary highlights our main finding that the excessive forward curvature, or hyperkyphosis, has a relatively high genetic component that is not explained by the presence of vertebral fractures.»
Gladstone
Investigator Ken Nakamura, MD, PhD, and the National Institutes of Health
Investigator Mark Cookson, PhD, also participated in this
research, which was supported by the following: the de Clercq Family, the National Center for Research Resources (#RR189288), the Burroughs - Wellcome Medical Scientist Fund, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (#P30NS069496), the National Institute on Aging, the Taube - Koret Center for Huntington's Disease Research, the Hellman Family Foundation, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (#RB4 -06079) and the National Institutes of Health (#U24 NS078370, # 3R01 NS039074, # 2R01 N
research, which was supported by the following: the de Clercq Family, the National Center
for Research Resources (#RR189288), the Burroughs - Wellcome Medical Scientist Fund, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (#P30NS069496), the National Institute on Aging, the Taube - Koret Center for Huntington's Disease Research, the Hellman Family Foundation, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (#RB4 -06079) and the National Institutes of Health (#U24 NS078370, # 3R01 NS039074, # 2R01 N
Research Resources (#RR189288), the Burroughs - Wellcome Medical Scientist Fund, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (#P30NS069496), the National Institute on
Aging, the Taube - Koret Center
for Huntington's Disease
Research, the Hellman Family Foundation, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (#RB4 -06079) and the National Institutes of Health (#U24 NS078370, # 3R01 NS039074, # 2R01 N
Research, the Hellman Family Foundation, the California Institute
for Regenerative Medicine (#RB4 -06079) and the National Institutes of Health (#U24 NS078370, # 3R01 NS039074, # 2R01 NS04549).
Principal
Investigator, stem cell biology and
aging research Investigator, Sino - German Laboratory for Aging and Regenerative Medicine, ILAS, CAMS, Beijing, China Principal Investigator, Max - Planck - Partner - Group - Program Phone: 010-67776051 Fax: 010-67776838 E-mail:
[email protected] K. Lenhard Rudolph,
aging research Investigator, Sino - German Laboratory
for Aging and Regenerative Medicine, ILAS, CAMS, Beijing, China Principal Investigator, Max - Planck - Partner - Group - Program Phone: 010-67776051 Fax: 010-67776838 E-mail:
[email protected] K. Lenhard Rudolph,
Aging and Regenerative Medicine, ILAS, CAMS, Beijing, China Principal
Investigator, Max - Planck - Partner - Group - Program Phone: 010-67776051 Fax: 010-67776838 E-mail:
[email protected] K. Lenhard Rudolph, M.D.
Other
investigators on the study include Lauren Shields, Bryce Mendelsohn, Dominik Haddad, Wei Lin, and Hwajin Kim from the Gladstone Institutes; Akos Gerencser and Martin Brand from the Buck Institute
for Research on
Aging; and Robert Edwards from the University of California San Francisco.
Because competition
for federal
research grants has intensified with declining federal support, the average
age at which an
investigator receives his / her first grant from the National Institutes of Health has now risen to 41!
2010 —
Investigator, Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell
Aging, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 2007 — 2009 Associate
Investigator, Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell
Aging, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 2007 Posdoc Fellow at Department of Molecular Medicine and Max - Planck -
Research - Group on Stem Cell
Aging, Ulm University 2005 Guest scientist at Laboratory of Stem Cell Therapy, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo 2003 — 2004 Visiting Scientist at Gene Mapping Center, Max Delbr ¨ ¹ ck Center, Berlin, Germany 2001 — 2003
Research Assistant, Sino - German Laboratory
for Molecular Medicine, Fu Wai Hospital & Cardiovascular Institute, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 1997 — 1998 Resident Physician, Youjian Hospital, Shangdong, China
Research by Dr. Mark Mattson, a senior
investigator for the National Institute on
Aging, suggests that alternate - day fasting (restricting your meal on fasting days to about 600 calories), can boost BDNF by anywhere from 50 to 400 percent, depending on the brain region.3