UW-Madison Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Last month CCANDL presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference(AAIC) 2025 in Toronto, Canada! Rising second year PhD student, Madeline Hale presented two posters, “Automated pause analysis of connected speech from story recall as markers of cognitive decline” and “Predicting PET amyloid positivity in the intermediate plasma p-tau217 group.” CCANDL post-doc, Deling presented a poster titled, …
New publication from the Gilmore-Bykovskyi Lab!! Click below to read more about this exciting new study from our collaborators, the first prospective study focused on direct observation and documentation of lucid episodes in individuals with advanced dementia. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf178
Check out Dr. Mueller’s publication with the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) on using telephone-based cognitive assessments to reduce barriers for research participants and improve continuity in longitudinal studies! https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70153
❤️🤍We are extremely excited to have our longterm collaborator, Dr. Davide Bruno, join our department as an Honorary Fellow! ❤️🤍
Congrats to all of the 2025 CCANDL graduates! We cannot thank you enough for your positive attitudes and dedication to the lab. We wish you all the best! 👏🎓
‼️ CCANDL alum, Doug Cowman, published his first article! This paper is the result of a project he did as an undergraduate research assistant with the lab. Congratulations, Doug! ‼️ Check out the article here: https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf169/8125273
All smiles for the CCANDL end of semester celebration! Thank you to Dr. Mueller for hosting us on Friday! 🌸💕
On Wednesday, CCANDL lab member Anikka Baker presented her project investigating sleep quality and plasma pTau-217 on cognition in Alzheimer’s Disease at the Bio162 Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium! Great work, Anikka! 🧠🔬👏
Last week Wednesday was the last lab meeting for the spring semester!🌸 Kristin Basche, our lab’s biostatistician, presented on a project she has assisted with looking at remote memory assessments on mobile devices to detect cognitive decline! 📱🧠
CCANDL lab member, Caitlyn Miller, presented her research on the relationship between depressive symptoms and connected speech, cognition, and Alzheimer’s pathology at the UW–Madison ADRD Researcher Day, and received the Best Undergraduate Poster Award! Congratulations, Caitlyn!