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Dean Carmen Sceppa takes a leading role at a center that aims to expand the ranks of researchers on aging from underserved communities.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which affects an estimated 6.5 million adults in the United States, hits some groups harder than others. Compared to non-Hispanic whites, Hispanic Americans are 1.5 times as likely to develop AD, and African Americans are tw

In a comprehensive review of U.S.-based Alzheimer’s disease brain imaging studies, USC researchers found all racial and ethnic minority groups are underrepresented. From a pool of nearly 12,000 studies on AD and neuroimaging, researchers identified papers that recruited samples in the U.S. and met other experimental criteria – ultimately calculating representation for 719 studies that reported participant race or ethnicity directly (“direct studies”) and 1,745 studies that drew from external databases where race or ethnicity was reported (“indirect studies”). Overall, approximately...

The MIND with mild caloric restriction does not change cognition or brain MRI outcomes compared with a control diet with mild caloric restriction.

In a randomized trial, the MIND diet with mild calorie restriction offered no greater protection against cognitive decline than mild calorie restriction alone in healthy adults at risk for dementia.