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Stanford researcher explores use of ketamine to treat severe mental illness
Obsessive-compulsive disorder was debilitating Geuris “Jerry” Rivas, a New York native. He would spend endless hours every day organizing his posters, comic books and videos. He constantly washed his...
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Late-night serendipity yields new insight Into Alzheimer’s disease
It was 2:30 on a winter morning several years ago at the National Institutes of Health outside of Washington, D.C. when Annelise Barron, PhD, a professor of bioengineering, spotted something odd. She’d...
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Blood infusions from young donors for Alzheimer’s are safe — they may even work
It’s not every day that early-stage research at Stanford’s School of Medicine generates its own New Yorker cartoon. But a few years ago, news of a discovery by neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and...
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An estimated 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, a number that is projected to rise to more than 13 million by 2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. And, also according to the...
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Some people may follow a football team, others may follow their favorite television streaming series. For Ellen Kuhl, PhD, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, her passion lies in...
View ArticleBlocking protein that impairs brain’s clean-up crew improves old mice’s smarts
Stanford neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, has been working for several years on the question of what causes the brain to lose its acuity with advancing age. One focus of his research has been a...
View ArticleA mutation causing alcohol-related ‘Asian glow’ may have ties to Alzheimer’s...
If I drink even a few sips of alcohol, in minutes my face becomes tomato red. I, and another 560 million people, have a mutation in the aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, ALDH2, that greatly reduces the...
View Article“There is not a cure”: A podcast on Alzheimer’s and poetry
Three years ago, internationally renowned flutist Eugenia Zukerman was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Zukerman, the arts correspondent on CBS Sunday Morning for 25 years, told me in this 1:2:1...
View ArticleSuspicion: Why are virus-targeting immune cells sniffing around Alzheimer’s...
In a new study published in Nature, Stanford neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and his colleagues report the startling discovery of virus-obsessed immune cells in autopsied brains of deceased...
View ArticleNeurologist: The brain is complicated, largely unknown
"Memories light the corners of my mindMisty water-colored memories of the way we were" Remember those lyrics from that Barbra Streisand song The Way We Were? For some people there are no misty...
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