Author Archives: Kara Elam

Researchers have successfully used a viral transport mechanism to deliver a gene to the brain of mice that prevented the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The results could have a profound impact on the future of gene therapy in treating Alzheimer’s. These were the findings from a study conducted by researchers…

Ever since Dr. Bennet Omalu, who Will Smith portrayed in the movie “Concussion,” released his 2005 study — based on autopsy results from a former professional football player — that revealed “neuropathological changes consistent with long-term repetitive concussive brain injury,” the future cognitive impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has…

Two important Alzheimer’s research organizations, Researchers Against Alzheimer’s (RA2) and Us Against Alzheimer’s (UsA2), will host an Alzheimer’s Talks Teleconference on April 11 to discuss recently released findings of an analysis of late-stage drug candidates to treat the disease. Significant findings in the analysis, released in March, include: There are 17 drugs in late-stage…

Results from a recent study showed that women are more likely to not only be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but to also be more heavily burdened by the associated economic costs, compared to men.  The study, entitled, “Gender Differences: A Lifetime Analysis of the Economic Burden of…

This week, Ohio State University (OSU) researcher, Dr. ​Rene Anand, PhD, MS whose laboratory is focused on studying how genes and the environment interact to increase susceptibility to neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders in an effort to develop brain organoids (three-dimensional organ-bud grown in a laboratory) to study…

A research article, titled, “Subtle Cognitive Decline and Biomarker Staging in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease” recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease by a team of investigators from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego…

Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have released multiple study findings showing that long term memories are stored with the help of prion-like proteins called CPEB.  These CPEB proteins work to form long term memory in the same way as the mechanisms that cause mad cow disease, kuru, and other…

A study published in the latest edition of the journal PLOS Medicine used gene variant analysis to assess the association between modifiable risk factors and individual patient susceptibility to being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).  The study, entitled “Associations between Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors…

Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL and Harvard School of Public Health in Boston recently published results from an observational study that showed when a patient’s dietary intake is modified it could significantly lower their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The study entitled, “…

A recently published study conducted by a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston, suggests that the currently held assumptions about the pathogenic mutation process associated with the onset of inherited or familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD) may be inaccurate. The study entitled “Presenilin-1 Knock-in Mice Reveal…