Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Cutting-edge research and memory loss education for the Boston area and beyond.

Boston, MA
Joined March 2012
Yesterday, we had the Privilege of having Dr. Russell Swerdlow speak to us on “Mitochondria and Mitochondrial Cascades in Alzheimer’s Disease”. View our Colloquium Lecture here from 10/19/2026! bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/10/2…
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Thank you @Hasselbeck for taking part in our research and furthering the fight to try and diagnose CTE in the living. We highly encourage everyone to check out their local ADRC for resources available to them! @bu_cte
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BU-led Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program receives $31.5M funding renewal. This five-year funding will provide the program’s primary operational and research support. bumc.bu.edu/camed/news-event…
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We had the Privilege of having Dr. David Weinshenker speak to us on “Alzheimer’s Prevention Trials: Measuring What Matters Most to Patients”. View our Colloquium Series Lecture here from 6/05/2026 bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/06/1…
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🧠 Losing your memory is not normal just because you are getting older At the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, we’re working to better understand aging, memory, and ways to promote healthy cognitive function.
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Many congratulations to our REC Scholar Merci Best! She finished our program today, and also is featured on the front page of the @NACCData website from the Spring ADRC meeting. We are so proud of you Merci!
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🧠 Did you know that regular aerobic exercise may help support memory and brain health? At the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, we’re working to better understand aging, memory, and ways to promote healthy cognitive function. Reach out to learn more!
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We had the Privilege of having Dr. Yakeel T. Quiroz speak to us on “Biomarker changes in cognitively unimpaired individuals with autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease: Findings from the Colombia-Boston (COLBOS) biomarker study”. View our Lecture here⬇️ bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/05/1…
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ReMIND is a vision-language AI that reads multi-sequence brain MRIs (T1, T2, FLAIR, etc.) and generates structured radiology-style draft reports plus lets you chat with the scans Check out the link below to learn more from the Kolachalama Lab! remind.bu.edu/
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This month, we had the Privilege of having Dr. Logan C. Dumitrescu speak to us on “Sex-Specific Genetic Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Resilience”. View our Colloquium Series Lecture here from 4/17/2026! bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/04/2…
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This month we have the privilege of having Dr. Luigi Puglielli speak to us on “Endoplasmic Reticulum Acetylation and Proteostasis”. View our Colloquium Series Lecture here from 2/20/26 bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/02/2…
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This month, we had the Privilege of having Dr. Barbara Bendlin speak to us on “Update on the Role of Gut Microbiome in Alzheimer’s Disease”. View our Colloquium Series Lecture here from 1/16/2026! bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/01/2…
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Last month, we had the Privilege of having Dr. Amalia Peterson speak to us on “Women’s Health and Brain Aging: Implications for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias”. View our Colloquium Series Lecture here from 12/16/2025! bu.edu/alzresearch/2026/01/0…
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Last week we had the Privilege of having Dr. Kate Turk speak to us on “Mindfulness as an intervention for Veterans with Memory Loss”. View our Fall Seminar Lecture here from 10/17/2025! If you would be interested in this talk, head over to bu.edu/alzresearch/2025/10/2…
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Earlier this week, we had the privilege of Dr. David Weinshenker speak to us at the BU ADRC on “Mechanisms and Consequences of Locus Coeruleus Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease”! If you would be interested in this talk, head over to bu.edu/alzresearch/2025/10/0…
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Yesterday, we had the Privilege of Dr. Audrey Fan speak to us on “Non-invasive MRI to image cerebral perfusion and blood-brain barrier function in aging and dementia”. View our Colloquium Series Lecture here! bostonu.zoom.us/rec/share/Jd… Passcode: TT3$j!D#
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BU Alzheimer's Center retweeted
Take a look at the story below from @ABC News to learn more about CTE from CTE Center investigator Robert Stern, PhD. Watch the story here: abcnews.go.com/US/cte-brain-… You can visit bit.ly/bucte_whatiscte to learn more about CTE and bit.ly/bucte_resources to find resources.
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