Helping students achieve success and reduce disruptive behavior is critical for schools. Buildings’ designs, particularly for those focused exclusively on serving special-needs students, must consider sensory…
Browsing: alzheimer’s disease
retrofit lost a good friend, Scott “Scooter” Kriner, in late January when he died after struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease. Scott was only 63. Scott not only…
With the support of a $3 million grant renewal from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Mariana Figueiro is perfecting a treatment she developed for older…
Most people associate Alzheimer’s disease with profound memory loss, but it is often the symptoms—sleep disturbances, depression, and agitation—that are a challenge to treat, and can…
So often we are caught up in our work or daily routines and rarely get the chance to reflect on how we got to where we…
Mariana G. Figueiro, Ph.D., of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease her findings…