Tag: Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

  • Nation & World

    Environment counts, Alzheimer’s research suggests

    A new study led by Harvard Medical School Professor Dennis Selkoe provides specific, pre-clinical scientific evidence supporting the concept that prolonged and intensive stimulation by an enriched environment may have beneficial effects in delaying one of the key negative factors in Alzheimer’s disease.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Brain changes found in normal elders

    Harvard-affiliated researchers using two brain-imaging technologies have found that apparently normal older individuals with brain deposits of amyloid beta — the primary constituent of the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients — also had changes in brain structure similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients.

    3 minutes