• What you need to know: Armed with early studies suggesting that what we do today greatly influences how well our brains function tomorrow, top Alzheimer’s disease researchers at CU and beyond are doing an about-face in the laboratories and doctors’ offices. Focusing on when and how dementias begin, they say, could dramatically curb the rising toll they are taking on the country. Of note: Sept. 21 is World Alzheimer's Day.
  

Could getting a flu shot every year as an older adult or taking piano lessons as a young child help curb the upward trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease as the nation ages? It’s possible, studies suggest. That evidence and more has spurred a shift in thinking, with experts looking backward in hopes of moving dementia care forward.

Debra Melani | September 04, 2020

A little understood region of the cerebellum plays a critical role in making split-second `go-no go’ decisions, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

David Kelly | August 31, 2020