AMiNDR: A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research The AMiNDR Team

Naila brings you 21 articles from January 2024, on non-pharmacological approaches to the prevention and intervention of Alzheimer's disease. You'll be treated to research from computational modeling, to rodent models, to clinical trials, with a particular focus on optimizing and personalizing intervention strategies. This episode also covers some research on the role of caregivers, and several papers consider the socioeconomic and ethnographic context in which these studies take place. Let's get to it!

Stimulation Techniques (7)
Exercise (3)
Cognitive Training (2)
Art Therapy and Dyad Interventions (4)
Lifestyle Interventions and Prevention (5)

Join Christy for 12 papers from January 2024 on structural neuroimaging in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. This episode is a bit different from past ones because it's all about the use of machine learning and deep learning. Whether you're an AI researcher or simply curious about the topic, you won't want to miss this episode.

Detecting AD (3:42)
Predictions, associations or comparisons (16:48)

Another series of AMiNDR kicks off with this episode. Anusha takes you through 7 papers published in January 2024 targeting neuroprotection in AD. If you'd like to hear about potential compounds that could reduce neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, this is the episode for you.

Testing for neuroprotection in cell lines (2:57)
Testing for neuroprotection using in vivo AD models (11:47)

Another special episode to help kick off our return! In what we hope to be a recurring special series, an interview with members in our scholarly community on navigating the multiple facets of life as a scientist. In the first episode, host Kevin Nishimura interviews one of our own Joseph Liang on his personal journey to and through graduate school. Tune in to learn what he has to say about getting into graduate school, and how his perspective on the journey has changed since he's started! We hope you enjoy, and please let us know if you want to hear more episodes like this!

In today's episode, Naila provides an overview of 14 articles published in November 2023 on non-pharmacological interventions for AD. You'll hear about cognitive training, music therapy, chair yoga, providing support to caregivers, and a range of neural stimulation techniques. Enjoy!

Cognitive and Social Factors (2:26)
Lifestyle interventions (13:40)
Stimulation Techniques (19:20)

Join us as we cover a set of papers published in November 2023 on treatments targeting cholinergic transmission in Alzheimer's disease. In this episode hosted by Christy, we will go over various topics, from drug discovery using synthesized compounds to drug testing of plant extracts, as well as improving drug delivery through the blood-brain barrier. Enjoy!

Papers evaluating synthesized compounds (2:00)
Papers targeting AchE (10:45)