We are proud to announce that WAM founder Maria Shriver and her son Patrick Schwarzenegger have launched MOSH, a mission-driven brain health and wellness brand, that will be donating a portion of the proceeds to help WAM fund women-based Alzheimer’s research. In...
10 years ago Lindsey Jordan-Powell wrote about being a 16 year old caregiver for her father living with Alzheimer’s in The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s. Now looking back, she tells the WAM Weekly about her experience and the...
Kristine Yaffe, MD, a Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She is also a member of the California Governor’s Task Force on Alzheimer’s Prevention and Preparedness. Dr. Yaffe answered our...
By Dr. William Sears and Dr. Vincent M. Fortanasce Remember Dr. Mom’s prescription for boredom and bad behavior? “Go outside and play!” No neuroscientist has ever topped this advice from Dr. Mom. Modern brain scans, those windows into your brain, reveal she was right....
In her groundbreaking new book The XX Brain (with a Forward by our founder Maria Shriver), WAM Scientific Advisory Council member Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D. addresses cognitive enhancement and Alzheimer’s prevention specifically in women, framing brain health as an...