Message from the Director Dear Friends of UCI MIND, Please enjoy this issue of MIND Matters. We include a description and photos from our collaborative event with the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Music, "Finding Light: Alzheimer’s Stories." Then, be sure to watch some of this amazing performance here: Concert Choir. This event in some ways exemplifies the mission of UCI MIND. Though our investigators spend nearly all of their time in the lab or clinic conducting state-of the art research, we never lose sight of the human elements of disease and this powerful collaboration through…
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Message from the Director For many, the new year is a time for fresh starts and resolutions. As we enter 2025, we at UCI MIND are taking the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to the mission to conduct research to discover solutions for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. UCI MIND investigators are unwavering in our commitment to this mission. The remainder of this newsletter, as with all of our newsletters, describes the manifold elements of the work of UCI MIND—from conducting fundamental basic science, to running vital clinical trials, to sharing our knowledge with you the community we serve and…
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Recent research has indicated that Americans face an increased lifetime risk of developing dementia. This finding has served as the topic of conversation from the New York Times to Saturday Night Live. Beneath the main headline, the increased lifetime risk of dementia was particularly pronounced among Black adults, who were in danger of developing dementia at three times the rate of White adults and with dementia arriving earlier. Dementia is life-changing for the person with cognitive impairment but also affects the spouses, adult children, and other supporters of older adults. In the article that sparked much of the recent attention,…
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