Alzheimer’s disease researchers from UW-Madison presented about 50 poster abstracts and about 10 oral abstracts throughout the 2019 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 14-18 in Los Angeles, California. Wisconsin research spanned a wide range of topics, from racial differences in vascular risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease to the connection between proper nouns and beta-amyloid to gut microbes and brain outcome measures.
The national media reported on a number of the studies presented at the conference, including “Excluding minorities from Alzheimer’s research is wrong—and it’s keeping us from finding a cure,” which features comment from Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi, PhD, RN, and “The Digital Doctor: The Next Big Leap in Healthcare,” which was just one of dozens of articles that featured comment from Manish Shah, MD, MPH, and his research into using intensive telemedicine programs to reduce emergency department visits for people with dementia.
At the Alzheimer’s Imaging Consortium preconference, Sterling Johnson, PhD, gave a plenary talk “Preclincial Cognitive Decline is Related to Tau and Amyloid Imaging Profiles in a Risk-Enriched Cohort.” This talk highlighted much of the work Dr. Johnson has been investigating with Rebecca Koscik, PhD, WAI senior scientist, and Tobey Betthauser, PhD, Wisconsin ADRC postdoctoral fellow, on using Alzheimer’s disease imaging biomarkers to identify relationships between pathologic processes in disease and cognitive decline early in disease, as well as the patterns of these biomarkers over time.
Watch some of our researchers present their poster abstracts from the conference
"Cardiac workload is associated with CSF biomarkers in cognitively normal late-middle-aged adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease"
"Examining the role of cigarette smoking and cessation on combined risk of incident dementia, nursing home placement, and death in cognitively healthy and mild cognitively impaired adults"
"Gut microbial metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid are associated with biomarkers of Alzheimer's pathology"
"Retrospective cognitive decline is associated with neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques measured by [F-18]MK-6240 and [C-11]PiB in late-middle aged persons clinically unimpaired at baseline"
"Recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in Alzheimer's disease research: A systematic review"
"Perspective of Veterans Affairs mental health providers on working with older adults with dementia and their caregivers"
"Lessons from a research collaboration with the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin"
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