Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center launches this year’s Tennessee Dementia ECHO program connecting health care professionals with dementia care experts

Since its launch in 2024, the program has expanded to serve clinicians across West, Middle and East Tennessee through regional partnerships with the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Q+A: Angela Jefferson, PhD

Support from longtime Vanderbilt Health donor Herbert Christopher provides open access to new textbook co-created by otolaryngologist David Haynes

Haynes, a Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, has proudly brought each edition of the text to surgical trainees, and is thrilled to make the latest version free and available to all, thanks to Christopher’s support.

Lower cardiac output predicts faster brain loss in carriers of Alzheimer’s disease risk gene

The study followed 756 participants over an 11-year period and examined whether reduced cardiac function could lead to adverse brain health outcomes even in the absence of cardiovascular disease.

Brain imaging study highlights ethnoracial differences in dementia 

Although Black and Hispanic people are more apt to have dementia, they are significantly less apt than other racial and ethnic groups to show Alzheimer’s pathology on brain scans. 

Study finds so-called super agers tend to have at least two key genetic advantages

Super agers were 68% less likely to harbor the gene nobody wants,APOE-ε4, compared to individuals with AD dementia in the same 80+ age group.