El neurólogo brasileño afincado en Pensilvania Tharick Pascoal es uno de los ochenta peregrinos que, procedentes de 26 países diferentes, participan desde este lunes en la segunda edición de Walking the Talk for Dementia. Una iniciativa que define como...
Pitt Psychiatry’s 2024 Research Day featured 173 poster presentations from faculty, trainees, and staff. Each poster presenter was visited by one pair of reviewers from among a total of 55 faculty discussants. During the plenary session, Outstanding Poster...
Congratulations to Cynthia Felix, MD, MPH, and Shalini Sivathasan, PhD, who received Best Poster Presentation Awards at the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association 2024 Postdoctoral Data & Dine Symposium. Dr. Felix is a postdoctoral associate focusing on...
Researchers around the world are collaborating in the largest head-to-head tau PET dataset and harmonization effort ever undertaken. The findings could lead to significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. Drs. Tharick Pascoal...
As neuronal supporters and immune surveyors, astrocytes and microglia are no mere bystanders to the neuronal mayhem that unfolds in Alzheimer’s disease. At the AD/PD meeting, held March 5-9 in Lisbon, scientists presented new twists on the relative contributions of...
Alzheimer’s patients are notoriously irritable, agitated and anxious – and researchers now think they know why. Brain inflammation appears to influence the mood problems of Alzheimer’s patients, rather than traditional markers of the disease like amyloid beta or tau...