“Based on a lot of observational evidence, as well as some smaller clinical trials, we expected to see that older adults who engage in exercise would show improvements in memory and thinking as well as improvements, maybe increases, in the size of the structures of their brain that underlie those aspects of cognition,” study co-author Dr. […]
WashU coaching program strengthens research integrity on a national scale
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Carlos Cruchaga, PhD, has received a 2022 Zenith Fellow Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. The annual award is given to scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of Alzheimer’s disease research and are likely to make additional, substantial contributions in the future.
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The American Psychological Foundation has awarded its Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Prize to Deanna Barch, chair of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.