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San Antonio Report: It took nearly 5 years to find Maria Llamas after she went missing. Did it need to?
January 28, 2025
Neela K. Patel, MD, professor and chief of geriatrics and supportive care in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, and outreach recruitment and engagement director at the university’s Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, tells the San Antonio Report that it’s easy for elderly Alzheimer’s patients to […]
UT Health San Antonio leads bioinformatics program for African scientists studying neurodegenerative diseases
January 23, 2025
A collaboration between UT Health San Antonio and African biomedical leaders, called the The AI-BOND program, aims to address the growing need for bioinformatics education in Africa to tackle the increasing cases of Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The program provides African researchers with essential skills in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting biological data for neurodegenerative disease […]
Texas Public Radio: Diagnosing CTE before death
December 4, 2024
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a rare neurodegenerative disease that develops in people who have many years of hits to the head. We often hear about CTE in former football players, but it can also occur in rodeo riders, soldiers, or someone who has experienced years of intimate partner violence. According to Jeremy Tanner, MD, assistant […]
World News Today: New neuroimaging marker may identify persons at risk of dementia in future clinical trials
November 22, 2024
Claudia Satizábal, PhD, associate professor at the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio; Sudha Seshadri, MD, director of the Biggs Institute; and director of the Biggs Institute and co-author of the study; and Alison Luckey, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the Biggs Institute discuss a landmark UT Health […]
World-renowned Alzheimer’s researcher receives $300,000 UT System Faculty STARs award
November 22, 2024
Agustin Ruiz, MD, PhD, professor and director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases’ Biological Core laboratory and the Keith M. and Pat V. Orme Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) received a $300,000 UT System Faculty STARs (Science […]
San Antonio Express News: Fluctuating cholesterol in older adults tied to increased dementia risk
November 14, 2024
Sudha Seshadri, MD, the founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio, is quoted in a story by American Heart Association News featured in the San Antonio Express-News. The article discusses an Australian study that links fluctuating cholesterol levels in older adults to an increased risk […]
Jerusalem Post: Daytime sleepiness linked to higher risk of dementia-related syndrome in older adults
November 8, 2024
Sudha Seshadri, MD, DM, professor and founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, says that lack of sleep seems to be a risk factor for increasing the risk of dementia and perhaps also the rate of decline, in this Jerusalem Post story. Read the article at Jpost.com.
KRGV-TV: Medical Breakthroughs: New device helping patients diagnosed with dystonia
September 3, 2024
Okeanis Vaou, MD, associate professor and chief of the movement disorders division in the Department of Neurology, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is featured in this KRGV-TV report about the university’s doctors implanting the first rechargeable, sensing deep brain stimulation […]
Healio: Longer sleep linked to neurodegeneration, cognitive decline, with depression as mitigator
August 5, 2024
Vanessa Young, MS, senior clinical research coordinator and a project manager with the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio, told Healio at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference that she and fellow researchers sought to investigate associations between sleep duration and cognition and whether depression acted as a mitigating […]
The New York Times: How Poor Sleep Affects Your Risk of Dementia
July 15, 2024
Sudha Seshadri, MD, the founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio, speaks to The New York Times on sleep and cognitive issues. Read the article at NYTimes.com.