Dr. Kristine Yaffe receives award from NIH
February 05, 2021
The Gordon Lecture is part of the NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, with the goal of keeping NIH researchers abreast of the latest and most important research in the United States. Dr. Kristine Yaffe delivers keynote at the 2021 Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium (TARCC) Scientific Symposium
February 05, 2021
TARCC 2021 Scientific Symposium:
Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease Science, Research, and Care
Save the Date! The next TARCC Symposium will be a virtual event on Thursday January 28, 2021 from 9am to 5pm. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to enhance sleep in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review
December 11, 2020
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Breast Arterial Calcification Is Not Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Incident All-Cause Dementia Among Postmenopausal Women: The MINERVA Study
December 11, 2020
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Vascular health across young adulthood and midlife cerebral autoregulation, gait, and cognition
December 11, 2020
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Introduction: To test the association of vascular health (VH) across young adulthood with midlife dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA), gait, and cognition; and to test whether dCA is a modifying factor. Dr. Yaffe presented a keynote at the 13th Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease Conference
November 13, 2020
“Implementing the lessons of epidemiology”
Kristine Yaffe, MD
Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California – USA CNN reports on Drs. Bock and Yaffe's findings on apathy and risk of dementia
October 16, 2020
(CNN) Apathy, a decrease in motivation and goal-directed behavior, in older adults could lead to an increased risk of developing dementia, according to a new study.
Finding ways to treat apathy could be key in slowing neurodegeneration as we age, according to the study, published Wednesday by... Sex, Race, and Risk of Dementia Diagnosis after Traumatic Brain Injury among Older Veterans
September 25, 2020
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Objective: To investigate whether sex and race differences exist in dementia diagnosis risk associated with TBI among older Veterans.
Methods: Using Fine-Gray regression models, we investigated incident dementia diagnosis risk with TBI exposure by sex and race. Together Receives $2.5M from the NIH for Alzheimer’s Research
September 18, 2020
Dr. Barnes will serve as a co-investigator on an NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant awarded to Together Senior Health to test the effects of Moving Together -- a telehealth version of her Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ) program for people living with memory...