Signs and Symptoms of Pituitary Tumors
Article originally published in the Summer 2019 Connections quarterly newsletter. Advanced imaging is catching more pituitary tumors than ever before. Often these tumors — once thought to...
Category: Aging
Meet Neurologist Dr. Aimee Pierce
Article originally published in the Summer 2019 Alzheimer’s Update Meet Dr. Aimee Pierce! A native from Eugene, Oregon, Dr. Pierce began her training at Columbia University before completing her...
Caregiver Corner: Introducing a formal caregiver
Article originally published in the Summer 2019 Alzheimer’s Update Family members often ask us for tips on how to introduce a formal caregiver to their family member who has dementia. At some...
Online Monitoring Tech Examines How Financial Behaviors Change with Age
Dr. Kathy Wild has been providing neuropsychological evaluations and caregiver support at the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center for over 30 years. Dr. Wild is the principal investigator...
Confessions of a Research Junkie
Below is Ed Parker’s story about being a research participant. Reprinted with permission from 3550 magazine. Article originally published in the Winter 2018 Alzheimer’s Update. Have you ever...
Caregiver Corner: Get by with a little help from friends
Article originally published in the Winter 2018 Alzheimer’s Update We sent our daughter off to college in August, and I’ve been reflecting on her schooling to date. When she was in middle...
Luvaas grant expands Alzheimer’s research
Updated from an article originally published in the Winter 2018 Alzheimer’s Update Alzheimer’s Disease causes irreversible brain degeneration, taking with it the thinking skills and memories...
Community workshops provide brain health information for Asian-Americans
Research associates Dara Wasserman, Nicole Fleming and Sylvia Salazar provided nine lectures on brain health and dementia to over 250 community-dwelling Asian older adults earlier this year....
A small bet, at the right time and place
I arrived at OHSU in 2013, a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Knight Cardiovascular Institute. I had just completed my...
The caregiver perspective: Jennifer’s story
My husband, Charles, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2010. He was 65. Over the next six years, my role changed as his disease progressed: I went from supportive care partner to supportive...
Brain donation at OHSU
If a patient has a brain disease, usually the family will donate the brain for study after death for a couple of reasons. The first is to find out the final diagnosis. The second is to understand...