NYU Langone’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s newsletter, Mind Matters, helps us to stay in touch with our study volunteers and the wider community. Our newsletter highlights the latest in Alzheimer’s disease research, studies of new treatments, and our faculty’s accomplishments. We also provide updates about our upcoming events and volunteer opportunities as well as resources on healthy aging.

Latest Issues

Mind Matters Spring-Summer 2024

• AI for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Tau in Alzheimer’s Disease: Another Avenue for Treatment?
• Positive Psychosocial Factors and Health Outcomes
• Feed Your Gut, Feed Your Brain
• Support for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia Is Proven to be Essential

Mind Matters Fall-Winter 2023­–2024

• Singing for Brain Health
• Leqembi: A New Alzheimer’s Disease Drug
• Why Donate Your Brain to Science?
• Lumbar Punctures: The Facts
• Steps in the Right Direction: How People Walk May Shed Light on Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

Mind Matters Spring–Summer 2023

• Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s Disease?
• Sniffing Out Alzheimer’s Disease
• Brain Fog After COVID-19
• Brain Food

Mind Matters Fall 2022

• Amyloid Hypothesis on a Bumpy Ride
• Breaking News in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
• Seeing What Alzheimer Saw
• The Importance of Diversity in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Mind Matters Summer­–Fall 2021

• Harnessing the Innate Immune System to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
• COVID-19 and Cognition
• Our New Procedures: Brain Imaging and Digital Biomarkers
• Hearing Loss and Aging

Mind Matters Spring–Summer 2020

• COVID-19 Biomarkers and Clinical Outcomes in Older Adults
• Identifying Molecular Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease: Our Research
• The Effect of Mindfulness and Meditation on Cognitive Functioning
• Music and Our Memories
• Discovery of a New, Very Early Stage of Eventual Alzheimer’s Disease

Mind Matters Fall 2019

• Oral Health and Dementia
• Food for Thought: How Diet Relates to Memory
• The Muscle-Memory Connection

Mind Matters Winter 2018–2019

• What Exactly Is Normal, Age-Related Memory Loss?
• Memory Improvement through Nicotine
• Sleep and Dementia Risk
• Prevention of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Medications That Stimulate New Brain Cells in the Memory Region of the Brain