The Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured research by Andrei Irimia on how Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury appear to affect the brain in similar ways. “The results may help health professionals to identify TBI victims who are at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” he said.
U.S. News & World Report (via HealthDay) featured research by Andrei Irimia on how Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury appear to affect the brain in similar ways. “The results may help health professionals to identify TBI victims who are at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease.”
Los Angeles Daily News quoted Eileen Crimmins of the USC Leonard Davis School on the inequality gap that emerges after age 65. “Geographic differentiation isn’t random: People who are poor, or who smoke or who are obese tend to be concentrated in certain places,” she said.
Using MRIs and machine learning, researchers mapped comparable degenerative changes in gray and white matter of the brain.
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Science Magazine featured a study, led by USC Stem Cell scientist and USC Leonard Davis School joint appointee Michael Bonaguidi and first author Albina Ibrayeva, a Biology of Aging PhD candidate in the Bonaguidi Lab, that demonstrates that neural stem cells – the stem cells of the nervous system – age rapidly. The news also appeared in Bioengineer.org, Medical Xpress, News Medical, AZO Life Sciences, and Science Codex.
Labels present challenges to fighting ageism and promoting intergenerational understanding, say USC experts.
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The Guardian quoted Jessica Ho on why the United States has higher mortality rates and lower life expectancy. “Americans … often practice poor health behaviors, and this may interact with structural conditions like patchwork access to health care to produce worse outcomes. For example, high rates of homicide are related to inequality and residential segregation; high rates of firearm-related deaths are influenced by both behavioral factors and the greater availability of guns in the US.”
USC researchers conduct first-ever study of Abl1 gene’s role in neural stem cell biology and the implications for cognitive decline.
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Shaun Rushforth MS '08, executive director of the Terraces at San Joaquin Gardens in Fresno, California, says the depth and breadth of his USC education aided in responding to the pandemic as well as ideas for "opening anew."
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While the pandemic may have curtailed summer travels, USC students still have the opportunity to immerse themselves in other cultures online via Maymester and Summer courses.
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