Carolyn Fredericks, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine and neurologist at Yale New Haven Hospital shares her expertise about healthy strategies that could help reduce risk of dementia later in life.
As the world’s population rapidly ages, a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds that people living with dementia are struggling at an alarming rate.
Using harmonized data from the USA, England, Europe, Israel and China, our study reveals that at least one-fifth of people living with dementia and functional limitations received no care for basic or instrumental activities of daily living, regardless of regional development levels, and that care deficits persisted globally over time.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded a five-year R01 grant to Serena Spudich, MD, MA, Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology; Todd Constable, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Radiology; and Lindsay McAlpine, MD, assistant professor of neurology for research that will employ the use of novel neuroimaging to understand the brain changes that occur alongside the neurologic symptoms of Long COVID.
Christopher van Dyck, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on the neurobiology and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, was recently appointed the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry.
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder, causing problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. It is the most common form of dementia, affecting an estimated 6.7 million Americans aged 65 and older, and is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. Two-thirds of those with Alzheimer’s disease in the U.S. are women, yet having longer life expectancy does not fully explain this high prevalence. Carolyn Fredericks, MD, has dedicated her research career to understanding risk of and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease and is working to determine why this disorder is so much more common in women than men.
Over the course of her Pilot Project funded by Women’s Health Research at Yale, Carolyn Fredericks, MD, assistant professor of neurology, forged interdisciplinary partnerships to propel her research forward.