I am writing on behalf of my colleagues in the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium to express our anguish about the injustice of George Floyd’s death and the long history of other social injustices, many of which are never reported. We are determined to be a part of the...
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Just days after news that an ultra-rare form of a cholesterol-related gene called APOE protected a Colombian woman from developing early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (as one of her other genes supposedly fated her to), a second study is providing even stronger evidence...
A genetic mutation said she was destined to get Alzheimer’s in her 40s, just like her family members in the Colombian kindred with a rare form of the disease. But remarkably, she experienced no cognitive decline until her 70s. Banner Alzheimer’s Institute was involved...
ASU launches Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging with an eye toward caring for an aging population Click here to read the full article at Arizona State University
Keefe is developing open source QIIME 2 plugins for analysis of the gut microbiome in 3xTg-AD mice. The goal is for these computational methods to help answer key questions in ecology and human health. Those methods can then be applied in new research and potentially...
Championing the need for research, programs and support for caregivers has been a passion of David Coon’s for more than three decades. Recently, those efforts were honored in an especially meaningful way by the Arizona Caregiver Coalition. Click here to read the full...
This newly released article was written by first author Robert Stern, PhD; and senior author Eric M. Reiman, MD. The research consisted of brain imaging studies in former NFL players and was done in collaboration with researchers from Banner Alzheimer’s Institute,...
Charlene and J. Orin Edson’s gift to be split between Biodesign Institute and newly renamed Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Dementia is a health issue that touches everyone, from the person afflicted to their friends and family to the individuals...