30 09, 2022

Small city makes a huge international impact.

By |2022-09-30T12:48:20+00:00September 30, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Small city makes a huge international impact.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2022 Media Contact: Amanda McGee Director of Marketing & Communications Communication@LissMD.com (706) 327-4000 Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Inc. have announced that Lecanemab has demonstrated a significant reduction of clinical decline in early Alzheimer’s disease. Lecanemab is likely to be the first fully approved disease modifying drug for this dreaded illness. Columbus, Georgia, home to Columbus Memory Center, has less than 200,000 people, but enrolled the third highest number of research subjects for each of Lecanemab’s pivotal trials COLUMBUS, GA. Sept 28, 2022 – Columbus [...]

26 09, 2022

Gamer Grandparents: How gaming helps stimulate the brain for dementia patients.

By |2022-09-26T18:34:09+00:00September 26, 2022|Alzheimer's and Dementia, Caregivers, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Gamer Grandparents: How gaming helps stimulate the brain for dementia patients.

You may not realize it, but the boomer generation invented computerized games. In 1952 the first graphic-based computer tic-tac-toe game was invented by a Cambridge Ph.D. student A.S. Dougless. Dougless, however, was not credited with the first real video game, the honor is given to William Higinbotham who created “Tennis for Two” in 1958. These two games inspired others to create even more complex games such as “SpaceWar” in 1962 by Steve Russell and “Chase” in 1967 by Ralph Baer. The first arcade games were created in 1971 by [...]

30 03, 2022

Columbus Memory Center becomes nation’s first dementia research center to receive educational grant for improving minority participation in Alzheimer’s research.

By |2022-03-30T14:49:36+00:00March 30, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Columbus Memory Center becomes nation’s first dementia research center to receive educational grant for improving minority participation in Alzheimer’s research.

Columbus Memory Center is rewarded for its proven success and innovative approach to providing inclusive Alzheimer’s care and research. Columbus, GA – Columbus Memory Center has been chosen to receive a $150,000 grant to promote the safeguards, benefits, and honesty of today’s FDA approved Alzheimer’s research trials to Columbus’ minority communities. “Columbus Memory Center already out-performs most of the nation’s Alzheimer’s research centers in both patient recruitment and minority inclusion” according to its Medical Director, Dr. Jonathan Liss.  “For this reason, along with our innovative approaches [...]

4 05, 2020

10 Tips to Maintain a Healthy Quarantine Routine

By |2022-09-26T19:22:00+00:00May 4, 2020|Health and Wellbeing, Uncategorized|Comments Off on 10 Tips to Maintain a Healthy Quarantine Routine

What day is it again? Day 5,372,614 of sheltering in place, you may say. Since around late March or early April, chances are, you and/or your loved one have been stuck at home, unless you ventured out to scavenge for what was left of essential items at a local grocery store. The shelter in place orders across the world were enacted to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. And although Georgia has begun to reopen for some industries, Governor Brian Kemp has extended the shelter in place designation for [...]

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