If you wish more information on any of these studies, please contact us by email . Alzheimer Disease Ongoing studies into the cognitive deficits and potential treatments of Alzheimer's Disease are an important part of the clinical research program of the Behavioral Neurology Unit. We have recently completed a study of anti-inflammatory medication in Alzheimer's Disease, as well as a study using a novel MRI approach to diagnosing subtle brain changes associated with early Alzheimer's Disease.
Research using new pharmacologic agents is anticipated to occur in the near future.
Dr. Margaret O'Connor conducts neuropyschological research investigating information processing in amnesia and dementia. She has authored and co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters describing the nature of the memory deificits seen in patients with memory loss secondary to infectious processes, cerebral vascular accidents, anterior communicating artery aneurysms, anoxic encephalopathy, epilepsy, closed head injury and dementia. Her studies on anterograde amneisa have focused on implicit memory, time perception, emotional priming and consolidation of new memories. Her work on retrograde amnesia has focused on recollection of personal and public events from remote memory. Dr. O'Connor has developed a test of remote memory named the Transient Events Test in order to investigate the course of forgetting over decade-long intervals of time.