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Columbia scientists have found that boosting the performance of a self-cleansing system in the brain flushed amyloid and tau toxins from the brains of mice and improved cognition.
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A School of Nursing team has received two awards from the National Institute on Aging’s PREPARE Challenge for its groundbreaking work using speech to detect early cognitive impairment.
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Established risk factors and biomarkers were associated with cognitive function as early as 24 years of age.
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- September 28, 2023
ADScreen, a speech-processing algorithm developed at Columbia Nursing, is now being tested in a clinical trial to see if it can help health care workers identify patients with Alzheimer's earlier.
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- September 22, 2023
A headache can be its own medical condition or a symptom of something else.
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- September 20, 2023
Botanists are using pioneering technology—designed by Columbia neuroscientists to understand the human brain—to uncover electrical signals that help Venus flytraps ensnare prey.
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- August 30, 2023
A mechanism used by adult zebrafish to create new neurons in the brain is dormant in people; reawakening it might repair our brains and slow Alzheimer’s disease.
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- August 30, 2023
A study led by Columbia neurosurgeons has found that MRI-guided laser ablation is a viable treatment that can provide lasting seizure control for people with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.
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- August 22, 2023
A new study in mice shows that new neurons created in the brain during adulthood are needed to maintain working memory—the temporary “sticky notes” of the brain.
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- August 18, 2023
Many researchers believe that the neurodegenerative disorder gets started in the gut. Columbia research now suggests that an autoimmune reaction may be driving those early events.
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- August 14, 2023
Columbia researchers have identified brain circuits that, when injured, make conscious patients with acute brain injury appear unresponsive, a phenomenon known as hidden consciousness.
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- July 10, 2023
Heart failure may lead to cognitive decline by creating a tiny calcium leak inside the brain’s neurons.
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- July 8, 2023
Lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, is the first drug for Alzheimer’s disease to receive approval on the basis of clinically slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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