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Cruchaga awarded Zenith Fellowship Award (Links to an external site)
Carlos Cruchaga, PhD, the Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor in psychiatry, is one of three Zenith Fellows selected this year and one of only 146 Alzheimer’s researchers chosen for the honor since it was created in 1991.
Washington University researcher finds Hispanic community more likely to develop Alzheimer’s (Links to an external site)
Dr. Jorge Llibre is a Washington University neurologist that researches Alzheimer’s. He says research shows the Hispanic community is two times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s or dementia than non-Hispanics.
Risk of Alzheimer’s dementia may be predicted with help of new tool (Links to an external site)
Using demographic information, brain imaging test results and genetic biomarkers, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an algorithm that can help provide people who volunteer for studies of aging with information about the risk each faces of developing dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease.
With early Alzheimer’s in the family, these sisters decided to test for the gene (Links to an external site)
New Alzheimer’s diagnoses more common among seniors who have had Covid-19, study finds (Links to an external site)
A recent study of more than 6 million people 65 and older found that seniors who had Covid-19 had a substantially higher risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease within a year.