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Celebrating its sixth year of production, Dementia Matters released 26 episodes with 33 guests from the world of Alzheimer’s disease and caregiving research. See which episodes resonated with listeners the most.

Sanjay Asthana, MD, weighed in on Medicare’s recent decision to lift coverage restrictions on PET scans for detecting amyloid deposits in the brain.

Research led by Manish Shah, MD, MPH, is part of a national effort to improve health outcomes for people living with dementia by investigating multiple strategies for advancing health care delivery during and after visits to an emergency department.

Barbara Fischer, PsyD, and Carey Gleason, PhD, MS, recently published research findings about a blood biomarker and a method of testing cognitive processes that could hold promise for identifying middle-aged Black people who are at risk for later developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Lauren W. Yowelunh McLester-Davis, PhD, a University of Wisconsin–Madison neuroscientist and researcher, has joined the Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP) in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health as its first director of Indigenous science advocacy.

Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS, is leading a research team at UW–Madison investigating a drug that could one day prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

The annual awards acknowledge and honor women of color among UW–Madison’s faculty, staff, students and in the greater Madison community whose advocacy, activism, or scholarship has fostered social justice and organizational change.

Kimberly Mueller, PhD, CCC-SLP, was recently appointed to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Brain assessments of World War II, Korean and Vietnam War-era veterans uncover disease biomarkers.

Nathaniel Chin, MD, discusses the impact of new Alzheimer’s treatments in memory care in a commentary published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.