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In the past, using "Alzheimer’s disease" & "dementia" interchangeably was a generally accepted practice. Now there's rising appreciation that a variety of diseases & disease processes contribute to dementia.

Linda Van Eldik, director of the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, received $5.5 million from NIH and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. She developed a drug that is ready for its first round of testing in humans.

It's an irrefutable fact that smoking is bad for you. Study after study has proven that smoking increases your risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes – even blindness. But dementia? Not so fast. A recent study has demonstrated that smoking is not associated with a higher risk of dementia.

Research from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting has identified two potential ways to predict vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) – the second leading cause of dementia behind Alzheimer's disease.

The 8th Annual Sanders-Brown Center on Aging's Markesbery Symposium will take place Oct. 26-27.

The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been awarded a $2 million grant to train the next generation of dementia researchers.