August 24, 2016

Life with dementia: Seniors expand children’s awareness

The pioneering group of the Our Time Has Come workshop has culminated in a community action project to raise dementia awareness in the younger generation. [VIDEO]

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Categories: Art, Dementia-Friendly Community


July 26, 2016

Crossing Borders: Beyond Euro-centric medical research in Parkinson’s disease

International research aims to prevent widening disparities in future access to precision medicine treatment of Parkinson's disease in the Latino population.

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Categories: Science Updates


Cruzando fronteras: Más allá de las investigaciones Euro-céntricas en la enfermedad de Parkinson

Un proyecto genético internacional, dirigido por UW, tiene como meta el prevenir el aumento de las disparidades en el acceso, en un futuro, a la prevención y tratamiento de la enfermedad de Parkinson en la población Latina.

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Categories: Science Updates, En Español


July 15, 2016

UW Elder Friendly Futures - A Teaser

Learn about our work at this unique conference on healthy aging, dementia, and community transformation. September 15 - 16

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Categories: Science Updates, Care & Treatment


July 11, 2016

Evidence of a Brain Injury-Parkinson’s Link Strengthens

Dr. Paul Crane gives perspective on the big news that TBI raises risk of Parkinson disease--not Alzheimer disease, as commonly assumed.

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Categories: Science Updates, News


July 05, 2016

When Theatre and Neuroscience Collide

Behind the scenes of 'A Few Things Remain,' our play about memory, family, and dementia for Infinity Box Theatre's Centrifuge.

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Categories: Care & Treatment , Art, Dementia-Friendly Community


June 21, 2016

Dispatch from NeuroFutures2016: Dr. Anne Churchland

At the Allen Brain Institute, a former UW post doc, now leading neuroscientist, talked about using optogenetics to probe decision-making in the brain.

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Categories: Science Updates


May 26, 2016

Inside the Music of Momentia

A celebration of Seattle's dementia-friendly community programs bids a musical farewell to the Art of Alzheimer's

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Categories: Art, Dementia-Friendly Community


May 13, 2016

Tackling the Science of Brain Injury and Dementia Risk

A neuropathologist gives his perspective on new findings about the long-term consequences of head trauma in the general aging population and football players.

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Categories: Science Updates, News


May 02, 2016

Gaming the Memory System

Researchers in the Buffalo Lab use videogames to figure out how the primate brain forms memories—and find clues to interventions for Alzheimer disease along the way.

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Categories: Science Updates, News