Alzheimer’s disease Archive
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November 19, 2021
Vanderbilt voices featured in Alzheimer’s webcast
Vanderbilt researchers took part in an online panel discussion this week sponsored by the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM), hosted by journalist and author Maria Shriver, the organization’s founder, and NBC news anchor Richard Lui. -
October 1, 2021
VUMC awarded $31.7 million to harmonize Alzheimer’s research data
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $31.7 million federal grant to harmonize research data gathered on human subjects in scores of disparate studies of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. -
September 30, 2021
Project seeks to treat Alzheimer’s in people with Down syndrome
A joint project between the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine will help deliver Alzheimer’s disease therapies and treatments to people with Down syndrome (DS). -
July 15, 2021
Arterial stiffening linked to Alzheimer’s disease
A research team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center reports in Neurology that greater stiffening of the aorta, the main artery in the human body, is associated in older adults with increased Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology as reflected in a range of neurochemical indicators measured in cerebrospinal fluid. -
April 15, 2021
Alzheimer’s study tracks protein located inside cells
New research from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published recently in the journal PLOS Genetics, suggests an essential role for a somewhat obscure biomolecule and casts light on a potential drug target in Alzheimer’s disease. -
March 22, 2021
Chemo for cancer lowers dementia risk
Cancer chemotherapy lowered risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurocognitive disorders that disproportionately affect older people. -
November 16, 2020
Imaging “biomarker” for Alzheimer’s disease progression
Changes in connectivity in the brain’s white matter may be a novel neuroimaging biomarker for assessing Alzheimer’s disease progression.