Tagged with Alzheimer’s Disease

A passion for medical research, science and education laid the foundation for what has become a powerful family legacy of philanthropy.

Improving community service uptake and wellbeing for people with dementia and their carers during the early stages of the condition, is the focus of a new Griffith study.

The chance of a person developing Alzheimer’s Disease could be detected long before it impacts simply by looking at their eyes, says Professor Peter Snyder, a neuroscientist from the US. Professor Snyder will speak at the Griffith University-sponsored Neuropsychiatry & Queensland Neurosciences Annual Meeting this weekend on the Gold Coast.

A deadly bacteria that can be picked up by a simple sniff can travel to the brain and spinal cord in just 24 hours, a new Griffith University and Bond University study has found.