Tag: Alzheimer’s
SubscribePublic Health neuroscientist a winner of prestigious prize for dementia research
January 25, 2013:
For his research on beta-amyloid plaques in the brain, Dr. William J. Jagust of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health has been named a winner of the 2013 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation. The $100,000 prize is an internationally recognized tribute for advancing dementia research.
Alzheimer’s drug boosts perceptual learning in healthy adults
September 16, 2010:
Research on a drug commonly prescribed to Alzheimer’s disease patients is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, better understand perceptual learning in healthy adults.
