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Policywise

Supporting decision making as cognition declines

January 20, 2023January 19, 2023Alzheimer'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.

From The Labs

Interferon drives cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease model

April 19, 2022April 19, 2022Alzheimer'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.

From The Labs

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

November 28, 2017Autism, 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: The Liver’s biliary tree