Episode 19 | Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: Does Cognition Matter? – With Dr. Adam Brickman
The estimated annual cost of healthcare for individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or other dementias is almost $300 billion. In addition to this financial burden, the number of adults aged 65 or older is projected to double and it is expected an estimated 10 million of these individuals will develop AD by 2050. Despite global efforts to understand and ultimately assess, diagnose, and treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD) more effectively, a consensus definition of AD still does not exist. In 2018, the National Institute of Aging – Alzheimer’s Association (NIA-AA) Research Framework recommended that we should shift the definition of AD from a syndrome (i.e., the cognitive/behavioral symptoms that individuals present with) to a purely biological construct, specifically the presence of βamyloid deposition, pathologic tau, and neurodegeneration (the “A/T/N” model). In this episode, we talk with Dr. Adam Brickman about the NIA-AA Research Framework biological definition of AD, the role of vascular contributions, assumptions about the amyloid hypothesis, and implications of not including the clinical syndrome in the diagnosis of AD.
Episode 15 | Interventional Neuropsychology: Compensatory Cognitive Training – With Dr. Beth Twamley
Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT) is a growing area of research and clinical practice for neuropsychologists in academic and rehabilitation settings. CCT leverages intact brain networks in order to teach skills that can improve someone’s ability to function independently in day-to-day life, despite the presence of other disrupted brain networks. CCT has wide-reaching applications and can be beneficial for many of the clinical populations neuropsychologists already work with, including individuals with traumatic brain injury, severe mental illness, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. In this episode, we will talk to Elizabeth Twamley, Ph.D., about CCT: how it is applied, similarities to cognitive rehabilitation, who benefits most, where the field is going, and much more.
Member Newsletter – Spring 2018
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Advances in TBI: Emerging Role of Imaging and Blood Biomarkers
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47th Annual Meeting Satz Award Recipient – New York City, New York, USA, February 20-23, 2019
47th Annual Meeting Satz Award RecipientNew York City, New York, USA, February 20-23, 2019 Dr. Jane Holmes Bernstein Dr. Bernstein obtained her PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1973, and from 1974-1975 she completed a NATO/Science Research Council fellowship in aphasia, neurolinguistics, and neuropsychology at the Aphasia Research Center in the Boston […]
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Advances in TBI: Emerging Role of Imaging and Blood Biomarkers [Quiz]
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