Accomplishments: Department of Brain Health
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health) will be recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
A tradition dating back to 1874, election as a AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor, and all Fellows are expected to…
Hui Zhan (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) has published a research article titled “Biomarker Identification for Alzheimer’s Disease Through Integration of Comprehensive Mendelian Randomization and Proteomics Data” in the Journal of Translational Medicine on March 6.
The study is co-authored by Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health…
Rakshitha Mohankumar, Katie T. Singsank, Brenna N. Renn (all Psychology) and Samantha E. John (Brain Health) recently published a chapter entitled "Mental Status Examination" in the text "Diagnostic Interviewing (6th Edition)." This guide for emerging and seasoned clinicians centers on clinical description and the pragmatics of “how to” conduct…
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health) co-authored a recently published article titled, "Human herpesvirus-associated transposable element activation in human aging brains with Alzheimer's disease." Previous evidence has indicated a role for the herpes virus in Alzheimer's, and this article reveals new evidence for this relationship using advanced…
Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health) co-authored a recently published article titled, "Drug repurposing for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders," which addresses new strategies -- particularly involving computational mechanisms -- for discovering new candidates for drug repurposing; legislative, scientific, and…
Drs. Amanda Leisgang Osse, Jefferson W. Kinney, and Jeffrey L. Cummings (all Medicine) recently co-authored the article, "The Common Alzheimer's Disease Research Ontology (CADRO) for biomarker categorization." The article pertains to a classification system developed by the NIH for all biological processes involved in Alzheimer's disease. The name…
Grace J. Goodwin (Clinical Psychology) coauthored an article, "Neuropsychiatric symptoms predict rate of change in executive function in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias," where she and fellow Cognitive Aging and Neuropsychological Equity (CANE) lab members Katie T. Singsank (Clinical Psychology), Denise Ruiz de Mendoza Lafont-…
Kirsten Calvin-Dunn (Neuroscience IDP), Amanda Leisgang-Osse (Brain Health), Jeff Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published "Electrophysiological insights into Alzheimer's disease: A review of human and animal studies" in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. This comprehensive review article links together work from animal…
Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health) is the lead author of recently published article titled, "evoke and evoke+: design of two large-scale, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 studies evaluating efficacy, safety, and tolerability of semaglutide in early-stage symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease." This article is a description of two large…
Alyx Phillips from Three Square Food Bank and Environmental and Occupational Health alum, Courtney Coughenour, Sheila Janofsky (both Environmental and Occupational Health), Ian McDonough (Economics), Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health), Samantha John (Brain Health), and Lisa Segler from Three Square Food Bank presented a talk, "…
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health), research professor and Director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at UNLV, was presented with a medal from Erik Ramanathan, the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, for his lifetime of work in Alzheimer’s research during a ceremony honoring the 10 previous winners of the…
The Department of Brain Health and the Office of Economic Development hosted the inaugural UNLV Innovation Day, an annual event that brought together UNLV researchers and industry professionals to discuss the growth and understanding of brain health, mental health, and the innovation brought together through science and experimentation.
The…