Dear McCance community,
We are delighted to share a brief update from the McCance Center. We have been very busy this spring, welcoming new faces and strengthening our international network. Just last month the American Academy of Neurology, at its annual meeting here in Boston, honored McCance faculty member Nirupman Yechoor, MD, MS, with a Practice Research Training Scholarship to further her work on reducing the impact of adverse social determinants of health on brain health. Meanwhile, McCance post-doctoral fellow Akashleena Mallick, MD, was named Best Neurology Trainee by the Association of Indian Neurologists in America.
Later this month, we will host our colleagues from partner brain health centers from University of Alabama, University of Toronto and Yale, to launch an innovative consortium that will align our path-breaking research at an unprecedented level, coordinating our research portfolios to ensure that we are all working toward our common goal:10% fewer cases of dementia, depression and stroke in 10 years; 30% by 2050!
We are enormously proud of the teams of colleagues we have brought together from around the world and can’t wait to share the details of our joint work. In the meantime, we leave you with some of the exiting work of our faculty over the past few months.
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With excitment,
Jonathan Rosand, MD, MSc, Managing Co-Director
Rudy Tanzi, PhD, Co-Director
Greg Fricchione, MD, Co-Director
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McCance Initiatives, Faculty, Clinicians Making an Impact |
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New research shows that the rate of stroke has been steadily rising among Americans younger than 49 for the past 30 years. McCance's Dr. Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc, FAAN explains why that is happening, and the lifestyle behaviors we could all focus on to help reverse the trend.
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Dr. Rudy Tanzi, PhD, takes the Society of the Four Arts through the pathology behind Alzheimer’s disease and his research on strategies for prevention, with a focus on modifiable risks that can be managed with lifestyle changes.
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Dr. Amy Newhouse explains the everyday things that may short-circuit memory. Dr. Newhouse offers advice on how making even small adjustments to your diet, exercise routine, and sleep schedule may reap big benefits for your brain health.
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Cracking an intriguing secret of centenarians: Why so...
When Herlda Senhouse looks back - way back - in time, she vividly remembers the smells - the sour tang of the beer she siphoned into bottles on her first job while still in grammar school in the early 1920s and the pervasive rotten egg odor from...
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edition.pagesuite.com
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Virtual reality improving seniors' reality in Swampscott ...
SWAMPSCOTT - Staff at the Residence at Vinnin Square, an assisted-living facility for seniors on Salem Street, are using virtual reality headsets to detect early signs of memory loss and other declines in cognitive function. In 2020, the...
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www.itemlive.com
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Sleep apnea linked to smaller brain volume, study finds...
A part of the brain connected to memory shrank in people with severe sleep-disordered breathing - which can include heavy snoring and sleep apnea - according to a new study. People with sleep apnea stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time...
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amp.cnn.com
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Dr. Gene Bowman will lead a talk at the Blum Center on how nutrients reach the brain and what dietary patterns are favorable and unfavorable. He'll also cover challenges in the design of nutritional interventions and where we are headed.
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the McCance Center for Brain Health, please contact Bridget Flynn
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