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A history of heavy drinking increases vulnerability to, and the severity of, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and related dementias, with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) identified as the strongest modifiable risk factor for early-onset dementia. Heavy drinking has increased markedly in women over the past 10 years, with mature adult women reporting a 41% increase in heavy drinking days during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This raises concern over the impact of excessive alcohol consumption during mature adulthood on dementia-related outcomes in both the short- and long-term. As a first pass attem...

Published: March 5, 2021 Lauren Stevens Lauren Stevens has been helping students solve problems and process beneficial information for nearly a decade as a Western Nevada College counselor. “I’ve genuinely thought over the years that I am an observer just watching students figure it out for themselves,” Stevens said. “I mean, I know there is a greater intricacy than that, but it’s more like the student is rewarded when they synthesize whatever information they need to move forward.” The WNC counselor was recently recognized as the Nevada Regents’ Academic Advisor Award winner fo...