In this study, researchers @emilyjacobs, @RowanSaloner, @kbcasaletto, et al. demonstrated that menopause triggers a distinct molecular fingerprint detectable in peripheral blood decades before cognitive impairment manifests. Full Study @NatureMedicine 👉 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our 10th edition of the Global Community Book brings together more than 1,250 Atlantic Fellows from seven programs around the world.

Our global community is united by a shared commitment to building fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies.

🔗issuu.com/atlanticinstit…

The GEAR 2.1 AdvanCing and Expanding Dementia Care Pilot Grant Program is now accepting applications! One $100,000 pilot grant will fund research to advance emergency care for people living with dementia and their care partners. LOI due Dec 21. RFA: bit.ly/4iE8c6m

Join the UCSF Fein Memory and Aging Center on Nov. 9, 10–11 a.m. PT, for Maiya R. Geddes, MD, on "Translating Cognitive Neuroscience for Dementia Risk Reduction." In person or online; register for virtual attendance.

Details and registration 👉 buff.ly/hPxHUmv

Todd James, MD, Anna Hines, FNP, MPH, and the UCSF Age-Friendly Emergency Department were featured in the San Francisco Chronicle! The article highlights the benefits of using music in the emergency department to support older adults.

Read more: bit.ly/3V4owWj

#UCSF

Today at 9 a.m. PT, Prof. Bruce Miller, a leading expert in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), will discuss new insights into FTD diagnosis and treatment at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Neurology.

Register: buff.ly/Uryb5IH

For #WorldStrokeDay, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health (@GBHI_Fellows) share what they wish more people knew about stroke, a leading cause of death and long-term disability worldwide with a lifetime risk of one in four.

Fourteen UCSF Fein Memory and Aging Center faculty are included in the 2026 Stanford/Elsevier database of highly cited scientists.

For 2025 impact in Neurology & Neurosurgery:
William Seeley: No. 88
Gil Rabinovici: No. 154
Bruce Miller: No. 275
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The @NIH Research Matters highlighted our Science Advances study. Learn more on speech-based aging clocks, dementia, and the social exposome: nih.gov/news-events/ni….
Thanks, Brandon Levy and the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Congrats @HernHdezL @AdolfoMGarcia and team

🎉 Excited to share our new paper in Brain!
🧠 Moving beyond cortex-centric models, we reveal how cerebellar-cerebral structural patterns relate to social cognition in bvFTD.
A personal milestone in my journey toward whole-brain network neuroscience! ❤️
📖 doi.org/10.1093/brain/…

We mourn Sir Patrick Stewart, whose intelligence and humanity reached generations.Stewart lived with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. As he inspired compassion in audiences, may we bring it to people living with dementia and those who care for them.

**MY OLD MAN (M.O.M.)**
Photographs by Pablo Tapay Bautista

Join us Nov. 12, 4:30–6 p.m. at Gallery190 for an exhibition exploring memory, family & caregiving

At 5 p.m.: Perspectives, a new conversation series bringing art into dialogue with science, health & lived experience

What does housing have to do with brain health?

Like Heaven Without God, a documentary by Atlantic Fellow Luca Capponi, follows five Berkeley residents living in a homeless RV community—and explores displacement, uncertainty and belonging.

Oct 21 7 PM buff.ly/DT8gvzX

What does it take to understand why brains age differently across people and populations? Next week, the ReDLat2 community will come together in Santiago for the ReDLat2 Annual Meeting 2026 to explore how genetics, the physical and social exposome, biomarkers, neuroimaging, and integrated to better understand dementia risk, resilience, and healthy brain aging. Looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues from across the network and continuing to build a more inclusive and globally relevant approach to dementia research.
📍 Santiago, Chile
📅October 19–21, 2026
More information:
red-lat.com/redlat2-annual…

What can genetics teach us about music—and music about life?
Join UCSF’s Fein Memory and Aging Center & SF Conservatory of Music for Art Reflects Life: Mutations, Variations, and Improvisation.
📅 Oct. 14 | 7 p.m.
🎟️ Free! Reserve here: [buff.ly/5LCO2Ru

UCSF Fein Memory and Aging Center Lecture Series

Ezra Mauer, PhD, presents “A Developmental Science Perspective: The Dyslexia Center and Its Contributions to the Wider Fein Memory and Aging Center Community"

Monday, Oct. 12
10-11 a.m. PT

register 👉️ buff.ly/CgpeIIB

For World Alzheimer’s Month, Dr. Anna Chodos shared insights on dementia prevention and care, from the connection between alcohol and dementia risk to the importance of early detection and brain health.

Read more: tiny.ucsf.edu/aEsC4i

#UCSF #WorldAlzheimersMonth #Geriatrics

Scientist and artist Anne Adams created a visual interpretation of Ravel’s Boléro while experiencing changes associated with frontotemporal dementia.
Her story helped inspire @UnRavelledPlay.

East Coast performances begin Oct. 9.
unravelledplay.com

#FTD #ArtsAndHealth

Atlantic Fellows are behind and onstage in @UnRavelledPlay: playwright Jake Broder and actor Leo Marks, who portrays composer Maurice Ravel.

See the play in Philadelphia, Oct. 9-11, and NYC, Oct. 23-24.
unravelledplay.com

#BrainHealth #FTD

How can Alzheimer’s blood-based biomarkers be used in primary care?

Michelle M. Mielke, PhD, discusses evidence from a large U.S. health system and clinical pathways Sept. 28, 10–11 a.m. PT. Attend at UCSF or virtually.

register 👉️ bit.ly/4dhColS

#AlzheimersResearch