ADRC News

As the availability of COVID-19 vaccines expanded, the Clinical Core study team resumed in-person study visits. In-person visits are critical to our research because of the meaningful data they provide. Additionally, we encourage study partners to come with research participants for at least part of each visit.

The new study conducted by Tobey Betthauser, PhD, and scientists at Harvard Medical School may suggest earlier age at menopause and the late initiation of HT after menopause begins are important sex-specific risk factors. 

The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center hosted its annual Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias Research Day on April 17, 2023. More than 300 people attended the event in person or online.

Sanjay Asthana, MD, founding director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and internationally renowned researcher and leader in the field of Alzheimer's disease, recently celebrated 20 years of service at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

May is National Mediterranean Diet Month, an ideal time to revisit the MIND diet for healthy brain aging. The diet was developed as a result of a four-and-a-half-year study through the National Institute of Aging that found people who ate more MIND diet foods had less risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study showed that better self-reported sleeping habits were associated with better health outcomes and cognition. The study analyzed sleep questionnaires from dementia-free participants in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP).

Nathaniel Chin, MD, was featured in Alzheimer’s TODAY magazine where he discussed genetic testing for Alzheimer’s disease, specifically focusing on important considerations for genetic testing and risks for discrimination following genetic tests for Alzheimer’s disease.

Nathaniel Chin, MD, was featured in the latest issue of Quarterly magazine. In the article “How Grief Transformed Me,” Chin discusses how learning of his father’s Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis altered his professional trajectory.

Natascha Merten, PhD, MS, has been awarded an R01 from the National Institute on Aging for her study “The Beaver Dam Offspring Study Neurocognitive Aging Study (BOSS-NCAS)-A Study on the Role of Accelerated Aging and Midlife Sensory Decline for Early Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia in Later Life.”

A data tool developed by UW–Madison researchers showing health-relevant metrics for every neighborhood in the United States is guiding a national model to help Medicare beneficiaries from under-resourced communities access health care more effectively.