ANA News
June 25, 2019 - "Trials to delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer dementia, and the development of blood-based biomarkers to screen for Alzheimer disease, are among the cutting-edge research initiatives that will be discussed at the ANA Annual Meeting.”
- John C. Morris, MD, the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker...
June 25, 2019 - When a decline in cognitive function impairs our social, occupational, or daily activities compared to our previous baseline, we are said to have dementia. However, these first cognitive abnormalities can first present as mild and have any number of causes, from Alzheimer’s disease, to vascular...
June 21, 2019 - An international team spearheaded by researchers at McGill University has discovered a biological mechanism that could explain heightened somatic awareness, a condition where patients experience physical discomforts for which there is no physiological explanation.
Their work, recently published in...
June 18, 2019 - With support from the BRAIN Initiative, Indiana University Bloomington scientists have created brainlife.io, a new cloud-based tool for keeping track of neuroscience data & code for analyses, storing information, and producing visualizations.
Learn more here: New cloud-based tool accelerates...
June 18, 2019 - The NIH Office of Science Policy June 13 shared a blog post about a new collaboration with the NIH Library to assemble a resource on the legacy of Henrietta Lacks in biomedical research. Cells from Ms. Lacks’ cervical cancer were extracted 65 years ago, and the cells have contributed to important...