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Preoperative Cognitive Reserve and Brain Integrity Explains Variabilty During Anesthesia

Read Full Scientific Article    Our research team shows that baseline brain integrity (brain markers commonly seen with Alzheimer’s Disease-Vascular Dementia) and cognitive function predict variability during a controlled period of anesthesia while having knee replacement surgery. This is the first study to examine intra-individual variability on…

Celebratory Lab Member Updates

As we start off 2017, we’re seeing great things happen in our lab that are cause for celebration. Congratulations to our members for all of their hard work! Announcements:   Loren Hizel has been accepted as a Fellow in the Aging and Cognition T32 Doctoral Program.  This is…

Our Recent Surgery Anesthesia Brain Articles

Hernaiz, C., Tanner, J.J., Wiggins, M.E., Sinha, P., Parvataneni, H.K., Ding, M., Seubert, C.N., Rice, M.J., Garvan, C.W., Price, C.C. (2019). Proof of principle: Preoperative cognitive reserve and brain integrity predicts intraindividual variability in processed EEG (Bispectral Index Monitor) during general anesthesia. PLoS ONE 14 (5): e0216209. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216209 Tanner, J.J.,…

Engaging Diverse Populations in Behavioral Interventions for MCI

Dr. Shellie-Anne Levy, a postdoctoral fellow within our lab, was recently awarded an Alzheimer’s Association grant entitled “Engaging Diverse Populations in Behavioral Interventions for MCI.” This pilot study will examine the barriers to recruitment, enrollment, and retention of older African Americans to a successful and already established cognitive rehabilitation program…

Orthopedic Surgery and Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study

Please read our recent October 2015 publication.  Do individuals with Parkinson’s Disease experience negative outcomes after electing total knee replacement surgery or back surgery?  We attempted to address this question.  The study was challenging to conduct.  Conclusion:  We need to conduct multi-center investigations on this topic in order to improve care…

How Do You Measure the Corticospinal Tract?

Please read our new November 2015 imaging methods paper – completed with colleagues in Dr. Tom Mareci’s laboratory Brain Imaging Behav. 2015 Nov 16. [Epub ahead of print] A majority rule approach for region-of-interest-guided streamline fiber tractography. Colon-Perez LM, Triplett W,…

White and Gray Matter in Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Dementia

Please read our new October 2015 paper published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2015 Oct 1;48(3):833-47. doi: 10.3233/JAD-150407. Dissociating Statistically-Determined Alzheimer’s Disease/Vascular Dementia Neuropsychological Syndromes Using White and Gray Neuroradiological Parameters. Price CC1, Tanner JJ1, Schmalfuss…