Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Understanding Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome

People who have Down syndrome may develop Alzheimer's disease at a younger age than people without Down syndrome. Recently, however, research showed that some people with Down syndrome might not develop dementia at all. Doctors ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Media multitasking linked to distractibility among youth

The aim of Mona Moisala's doctoral dissertation was to study patterns of activity in cortical networks related to attention and working memory, as well as to investigate associations between performance in working memory ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Ohio State implants first brain pacemaker to treat Alzheimer's

During a five-hour surgery last October at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Kathy Sanford became the first Alzheimer's patient in the United States to have a pacemaker implanted in her brain.

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