Stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults, affecting more than 15 million people worldwide each year. A USC-led team has compiled and shared one of the largest open-source datasets of brain scans from stroke patients, the NIH-supported Anatomical Tracings of...
This 2-year study by U-Penn’s Samuel Preston and Irma Elo uses nationally representative data to estimate the mortality hazards associated with diabetes, combining those hazards with the prevalence of diabetes to estimate the fraction of deaths attributable to...
Pamela Herd, PI of the 60-year Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, is working with colleagues at Stanford to analyze how polygenic scores obtained from WLS DNA samples are linked to differences in educational, occupational, and economic attainments. They are also examining...
Several modifiable lifestyle factors have been shown to have potential beneficial effects in slowing cognitive decline. A group of UCLA researchers found that a 4-week simultaneous memory training and aerobic exercise program improved memory, attention, and reasoning...
New research out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that Alzheimer’s disease is linked to specific chromatin shifts in the aging brain. PARC’s John Trojanowski and colleagues found evidence that in AD brains cellular responses to stress and DNA...
