Showing results for Alzheimer's Disease
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![A scientist sitting on chair with her hand on her face smiling at the camera]( "Donna Wilcock, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders, in her lab on the 10th floor of the Medical Education and Research Building. \"If we were looking to cure mice of Alzheimer's,\" she says, \"we've done that hundreds of times. We need to make sure that whatever we're looking at actually happens in the disease.\" (Photos by AJ Mast)")
The Vascular Side of Alzheimer’s Disease
Most Alzheimer's research focuses on plaques. Donna Wilcock's lab at IU School of Medicine is focused on what's happening in the blood vessels — and ...
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![A researcher holding a syringe and inserting in test tube in a lab setting.]( "Abigail Wallace, lab manager for Alzheimer's researcher Donna Wilcock, at the bench in the Medical Education and Research Building. The work is precise by necessity. Consistency ensures the data can be trusted, compared and reproduced. (Photos by AJ Mast)")
The Person the Lab Runs On
In Donna Wilcock's Alzheimer's lab, Abigail Wallace is the person everyone trusts — with the mice, the money and the science itself.
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Alzheimer’s Holy Grail
Finding a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is the field's holy grail. Jeff Dage, PhD, has been searching for most of the past decade.
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Leading the Way
A landmark IU School of Medicine study of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease enters its fifth year — and has more insights to share.
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Caring for the Caregivers
Mona Peck has unwaveringly tended to her husband for the last eight years as he confronted Alzheimer’s disease — an effort aided by IU researchers ...
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Room for Innovation
Longtime supporters Dave and Susan Roberts have committed to outfitting labs in a new medical research building that will seek answers for neurodegenerative diseases.
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The Search
Over the last 25 years, hundreds of clinical trials for drugs treating Alzheimer’s disease have failed. As the field takes stock, ...
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Will I be next?
For many families, what should be some of the best years of their lives will be stolen by a degenerative brain condition.
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Exercise reduces Alzheimer’s risk. Why?
An IU scientist explores the connection between physical activity and decreasing inflammation.
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Winning the Race to Save Memory
Dave Roberts backs drivers who push a car to the limit to take a checked flag. Now, he and his wife are supporting researchers at ...
