Posts Tagged ‘Medicaid’
Price tag for a questionable Alzheimer’s treatment: $109,000 per patient, per year. Unclear yet: For how many years?
The real costs of the new Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi — and why taxpayers will foot much of the bill (CBS News): The first drug purporting to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s disease is likely to cost the U.S. health care system billions annually even as it remains out of reach for many of the lower-income seniors…
Read MoreSeptember 17th @ UC Berkeley: Disrupting neurodegenerative diseases
__________ Quick heads-up about a great event next month for those based in the San Francisco Bay Area. When: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 / 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM PDT Where: Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley What: 2019 UC Berkeley Aging Research & Technology Summit: Disrupting Neurodegenerative Diseases Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases are
Read MoreThe Future of Preventive Brain Medicine: Breaking Down the Cognition & Alzheimer’s Disease Alphabet Soup
As the president and medical director of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF), it’s my job to stay on top of advances in the field of Alzheimer’s research. Recently, a number of articles in the medical literature have caught my attention. They are focused on a particular question that concerns most Baby Boomers like…
Read MoreTechnology as the missing link to enable a brain-based model of brain care: interview with Dr. John Docherty
Dr. John Docherty is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College, Cornell University, Director of Post Graduate Education there, and Chief Medical Officer of Brain Resource. Trained as a clinical research fellow in neuropsychopharmacology at NIMH, he later returned as Chief of the Psychosocial Treatments Research Branch, responsible for all federally supported…
Read MoreCognitive Health News Round-Up
Round-up of interesting recent news on cognitive health and fitness: the field is in motion. 1) Baycrest creates Centre for Brain Fitness with $10-million Investment from Ontario Government (Canada NewsWire) 2) Cognitive tests are the best way to select medical students (EurekAlert) 3) High blood pressure hard on the aging brain (Reuters) 4) Alzheimer’s tests beneficial for seniors (Atlanta-Journal…
Read MoreThe Gregarious Brain and cognitive skills
I find via MindHacks that NYT Magazine has published a great article titled The Gregarious Brain, subtitled “Williams syndrome — a genetic accident that causes cognitive deficits-”. The writer, David Dobbs, does an spectacular job at explaining that syndrome in the context of what cognitive skills are and how they evolved. Some sample quotes: “In the…
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