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Supporting decision making as cognition declines

January 20, 2023 Alzheimer's Disease, autonomy, Baruch A. Brody Lecture, bioethics, cognitive impairment, Decision-making, Dementia

This post is a preview of a presentation for the Baruch A. Brody Lecture in Bioethics. Want to learn more about this topic? Tune into the lecture Feb.

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Interferon drives cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease model

April 19, 2022 Alzheimer's Disease, cognitive impairment, inflammation, Research, synapse loss, Type I Interferon

This study highlights the importance of brain inflammation and other complex events involved in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

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How having too much or too little of CHRNA7 can lead to neuropsychiatric disorders

November 28, 2017 Autism, calcium channel, cellular stress, CHRNA7, cognitive impairment, genetic condition, Genetics, Human genetics, neuron, Neuropsychiatric disorders, neuropsychiatric disordrs

Studying the genetic code allows researchers to know whether some patients with neuropsychiatric disorders either have extra copies of the CHRNA7 gene or are missing

From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma