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Can I Bank Cognition Now for Old Age?
The concept is called cognitive reserve. “It’s an active coping process that’s built up over a lifetime. What you do in life can contribute to it, even in older age,” says Yaakov Stern, a...
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Research | Patient Care
An Experimental Procedure Could Help More Families Have Healthy Babies. But It’s Not Allowed in the U.S.
“We are breaking down a barrier that has certainly never been crossed before,” says...
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Research | Patient Care
Some Neurons Can Fight Alzheimer's With Self-Cleaning Mechanism
Some neurons have the capacity to protect themselves against Alzheimer's by sweeping away toxic tau proteins associated with the disease, according to a new study.
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Research | Patient Care
Untangling Alzheimer's Disease
Initially, scientists thought Alzheimer’s was a simple, straightforward problem to solve. “We hoped that there would be one big mutation [that caused the disease] and everything would be fixed,”...
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Research | Patient Care
Innovative Engine: Medical Research
Researchers at VP&S are rewriting the course of scientific investigation, intent on speeding up the process of discovery that will help patients with cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and...
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Research | Patient Care
New Program Hopes to Make Early Detection and Treatment of ALS a Reality
By closely following the relatives of some individuals with ALS, researchers at Columbia’s Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center hope to find ways to detect the disease before symptoms arise, allowing...
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Research | Patient Care
2018 Fellow Physician of the Year Award
The Department of Neurology is pleased to announce that Neurocritical Care Fellow Dr. Ayham Alkhachroum has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Fellow Physician of...
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Research | Patient Care
Wings Over Wall Street Diamond Award
At the 18th Annual Wings Over Wall Street event to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Dr. Matthew Harms...
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Research | Patient Care
American Heart Association’s Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Dr. Sachin Agarwal who was honored at the 2018 American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions Annual Conference with a...
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Research | Patient Care
Smaller and Bendier: Plastic Electronics are at the Forefront of Epilepsy Treatment
Dion Khodagholy and Jennifer Gelinas at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, in collaboration with Gyorgy Buzsaki at NYU Medical Center, are working together...
