Karen Lawrence works to understand the connection between PTSD and dementia, analyzing data from 42 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers across the U.S.
A Sanders-Brown Center on Aging project will focus on how genetic factors contribute to dementia. The work was recently awarded funding from the National Institute on Aging that will total more than $1.7 million.
The first published work coming from a multi-million-dollar grant received last year by a team from UK recently made the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Throughout March, UK is spotlighting Women Making History. These women are leading their fields of research and impacting the lives of Kentuckians. For Allison Gibson, Ph.D., her passion is helping some of the most vulnerable Kentuckians.
The Pat Summitt Foundation presented a $25,000 grant to UK's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging during the UK women’s basketball game against Auburn on January 26, 2023.
Donna Wilcock, Ph.D., was awarded a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant for her lab’s exploration of adverse effects of two new Alzheimer’s disease drugs shown to slow the progression of cognitive decline.
The focus of the work done by Elizabeth Rhodus, Ph.D., is to enhance sensory input in order to improve behavioral symptoms in people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
The Alzheimer’s Association welcomes the University of Kentucky’s Donna M. Wilcock, Ph.D., as the new editor-in-chief of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
