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- May 24, 2023
Adam M. Brickman, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology, led a study that tried to determine what effect taking a daily vitamin can have on memory function
- May 24, 2023
Jason B. Carmel, MD, PhD, Weinberg Family Associate Professor of Neurology, talks about a family tragedy that inspired him to focus his work on helping people with a spinal cord injury
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- May 23, 2023
Stephanie Cosentino, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology, and colleagues are working on developing screening tools to detect subjective cognitive decline and more advanced forms of memory loss
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- May 16, 2023
Neil Shneider, MD, PhD, Claire Tow Associate Professor of Neurology, talks about the new approved tofersen (Qalsody), the first drug developed for patients with a rare form of ALS
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- May 2, 2023
A new study done by Dr. Jennifer Manly, professor of neuropsychology, and colleagues, found that the quality of the high school you attend may have an impact on cognition later in life
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- May 1, 2023
Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS, MPhil, professor of neurology and epidemiology, commented on a newly developed brain-computer interface that can read a person’s thoughts & translate them into full sentences
- April 28, 2023
Miguel Arce Rentería, PhD, assistant professor of neuropsychology, commented on a study that found that people who were bilingual in their youth tended to score higher on memory tests later in life
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- April 20, 2023
Richard Mayeux, MD, chair of the Department of Neurology at CUMC and colleagues are investigating a set of blood tests that may help correctly diagnose Alzheimer disease in low-resource environments
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- March 21, 2023
Umrao Monani, PhD, Darryl C. De Vivo Professor of Pediatric Neurology, and colleagues discovered how a genetic defect triggers dysfunction in motor neurons that leads to spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
- January 24, 2023
Indira Turney, Associate Research Scientist in the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, is studying how brains age in diverse populations.
