News:Neuroimaging

The work, led by the BBRC and published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, has been pivotal in securing the European Medicines Agency's approval of the Centiloid metric as a valid biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease.

Research helps to better understand the relationship between biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and the pathophysiological mechanisms that are altered in their early stages.

The organization under the European Commission will finance part of the project

Investigators at the CNIC, in partnership with the BBRC, have discovered a link between brain metabolism, cardiovascular risk, and atherosclerosis during middle age, years before symptoms appear

BBRC researchers have detected that people most exposed to air pollution have greater brain atrophy and less cortical thickness in specific areas of the brain that are affected in Alzheimer's disease.

The initiative allows students to work on open source software development projects during the summer

The research opens the door to a new line of research that will analyze the relationship between sleep quality and Alzheimer’s risk

The results complement previous findings with participants of the Alfa Study

The results show that people with beta-amyloid alteration and subjective perception of cognitive impairment have cerebral volume loss in areas associated with Alzheimer’s disease