Linda J. Van Eldik, Ph.D., director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky and Dr. E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Alzheimer's Research Endowed Chair, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) among many notable leaders in aging from across the country.
The world looks to The University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging for answers to the mysteries of dementia, and the elderly rely on them for help in charting their path to a healthy and vigorous senior lifestyle. After outgrowing their space along North Broadway in Lexington, leaders at UK decided it was time that Sanders-Brown’s home for clinical research and patient care reflects their reputation building them a new home on UK HealthCare’s Turfland Campus.
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The Sanders-Brown Memory Clinic is the place where the research intersects with patient care. After spending several years housed in their current location on North Broadway in Lexington, they have simply outgrown the space. As the world looks to Sanders-Brown for answers to the mysteries of dementia and the elderly rely on Sanders-Brown for help charting their path to a healthy and vigorous last chapter, leaders at UK believe it is time that Sanders-Brown’s home for clinical research and patient care reflects their reputation.
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The early prognosis of high-risk older adults for amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), using noninvasive and sensitive neuromarkers, is key for early prevention of Alzheimer s disease. A recent study, published in the
Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, by researchers at the University of Kentucky establishes what they believe is a new way to predict the risk years before a clinical diagnosis. Their work shows that direct measures of brain signatures during mental activity are more sensitive and accurate predictors of memory decline than current standard behavioral testing. Many studies have measured electrophysiological rhythms during resting and sleep to predict Alzheimer s risk. This study demonstrates that better predictions of a person s cognitive risk can be made when the brain is challenged with a task. Additionally, we learned that out of thousands of possible brain oscillation measures, left-frontal brainwaves during so-called working memory tasks are good p