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Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our members' latest achievements, awards and honors.
06.22.2022 Chicago Health CaregivingDarby Morhardt, PhD was recently interviewed by Chicago Health Caregiving Magazine to discuss strategies for building meaningful connections with individuals living with dementia.
06.16.2022On June 9, Marsel Mesulam, MD was honored at the French Society of Neurology Awards with the designation of “Member of Excellence” in recognition of his important contributions to research in Neurology.
06.10.2022 The Daily Beast“With Alzheimer’s disease, the areas in the brain that are involved with music processing are the areas that go last,” Borna Bonakdarpour, associate professor of neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, told The Daily Beast. “People lose verbal memory first, visual memory next, and really near the end is musical memory.”
06.06.2022John Csernansky, MD, former chair and Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, whose career at Northwestern spanned nearly 15 years, passed away recently at age 68.
06.06.2022 Feinberg Development & Alumni RelationsOn May 24, 2022, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine celebrated 25 faculty, including Emily Rogalski, MD, recently appointed with endowed professorships during a group investiture ceremony at The Peninsula Hotel in downtown Chicago.
06.06.2022 News NationIn recognition of Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, Bob Vassar, PhD, sat down with News Nation to dicuss Alzheimer's Disease.
05.25.2022Investigators have discovered the mechanisms underlying a T-cell receptor’s immunosuppressive function, findings that may improve the development of precision therapeutics for chronic disease, including cancer.
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05.18.2022Darby Morhardt, PhD, LCSW, research professor in the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease and of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Public Health Practice, was recently appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Elder Law.
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- 05.17.2022
Rohail Memon, a second-year medical student, used his finance background to investigate the rise of private equity ownership in dermatology practice.
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05.12.2022A Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Immunology has discovered that mitochondria control the activation of a specific protein complex linked to inflammation and the progression of chronic diseases.
05.12.2022 Breakthroughs PodcastMusic-based medical interventions can have remarkable therapeutic benefits for patients diagnosed with cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and Aphasia. Cognitive Behavioral Neurologist Borna Bonakdarpour, MD, explains how he is using and studying these clinical interventions through the new Northwestern Music and Medicine Program.
05.11.2022The Department of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics officially become two divisions: the Division of Geriatrics and the Division of General Internal Medicine.
05.10.2022 The Daily NorthwesternOn May 5, The Buddy Program celebrated its 25th anniversary on NU’s 28th annual Alzheimer Day, which brought together more than 400 researchers, clinicians, community members, research participants and advocacy groups to share work related to Alzheimer’s disease.
05.09.2022The Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease held the 28th annual Alzheimer Day on May 5, returning to campus for the first time in three years.
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05.02.2022More than 700 alumni and guests convened at this year’s Alumni Weekend to reconnect and reminisce with former classmates about their time at Feinberg and learn about the medical school’s latest developments.
04.21.2022 AFTDAFTD honors the life of Dr. John Q. Trojanowski, a founding member of the AFTD Medical Advisory Council and a groundbreaking figure in the study of neurodegenerative diseases.
04.20.2022Epigenetic markers of cognitive aging can predict outcomes on cognitive tests later in life, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
04.20.2022 Neuroscience NewsThere are five different diseases that attack the language areas in the left hemisphere of the brain that slowly cause progressive impairments of language known as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
04.18.2022 Northwestern NowDecades before the world learned about Bruce Willis’ aphasia diagnosis, Dr. Marsel Mesulam was pioneering a new field of research on a similar neurological condition: primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a rare, overlooked and underserved syndrome that destroys a person’s language.
04.14.2022 ISBACongratulations to Darby Morhardt, PhD, LCSW who was recently appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Elder Law. The Commission was created as a result of the Supreme Court’s interest in studying ways in which state courts can better serve the needs of those in advancing years.- 04.13.2022 Northwestern Now“Aphasia is an impairment of language in expression or comprehension that is due to a lesion or disease in the brain,” said Dr. Borna Bonakdarpour, assistant professor of behavioral neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
04.12.2022On January 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to limit its coverage of Aduhelm only to those individuals enrolled in randomized clinical trials conducted in a hospital-based outpatient setting.
- 04.01.2022 AARPBorna Bonakdarpour, MD, talked with AARP to explain how to recognize the language-robbing condition and help those who have it.
- 03.31.2022 New York TimesDr. Borna Bonakdarpour, a behavioral neurologist with Northwestern Medicine, said about one million people in the United States currently had aphasia, which disrupts the ability to speak, read and write.
03.31.2022 WBBMDr. Ian Grant, assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern Medicine, said aphasia is a catch-all term that describes a specific symptom. WBBM Newsradio's Rob Hart reports.
03.18.2022 BBC PersianBorna Bonakdarpour, MD, was recently interviewed by Persian BBC News to discuss results from his telemusic intervention at Northwestern Memorial Hospital during COVID-19 lockdown last year.
01.31.2022Age-related breakdowns in regulatory mechanisms cause iron to build up in the brain, increasing oxidative stress and causing cellular damage, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
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On January 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to limit its coverage of Aduhelm only to those individuals enrolled in randomized clinical trials conducted in a hospital-based outpatient setting.
01.07.2022We spoke with Dr. Woodson about the challenges of caregiving. She provided some invaluable advice on how to take care of yourself while taking care of others.
