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01/09/13 Houston Chronicle-Nantz thanks donors

En route to Foxboro, Mass., where he will call the Texans-Patriots playoff game Sunday, CBS Sports announcer and University of Houston alumnus Jim Nantz stopped off Wednesday at Methodist Hospital for lunch with family and friends, including former first lady Barbara Bush, and to thank donors to the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Methodist. Read News- PDF

Holiday gatherings and Alzheimer’s: know the warning signs (PDF)

12/27/2012 - The holidays are a time for families to come together -- a time to reunite with loved ones whom you may not have seen in months or even years. Read Entire News Article

Know your risk factors to help prevent dementia

Houston, TX - 10/15/2012 - Dr. Gustavo C. Roman, director of the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at the Methodist Neurological Institute in Houston, summed up decades of dementia-related research in a review paper in Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders. Roman said although more definitive research is needed, focusing on the following risk factors can go a long way to helping reduce the risk of vascular dementia and mixed dementia (the combination of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease). By 2050, 11 to 16 million Americans will suffer some form of dementia.Read Entire News Article

Cognitive disorders expert joins Nantz National Alzheimer Center in Houston

Houston, TX - 5/9/2012 Bryan M. Spann, D.O., Ph.D., adds clinical leadership to Methodist’s Alzheimer’s program

Bryan M. Spann, D.O., Ph.D., a board-certified neurologist specializing in the clinical management of patients with cognitive disorders, has been named clinic director of the Methodist Neurological Institute’s Nantz National Alzheimer Center.

Spann most recently served as medical director of the Memory and Aging Center at the University of Southern California. As clinic director at Methodist, Spann joins a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Gustavo C. Roman, director of the Nantz National Alzheimer Center. The team’s focus covers the spectrum of cognitive disorders and dementias.Read Entire News Article

“Neurology Now, published by the American Academy of Neurology, is free for people with neurologic disorders and their families.” February/March 2012
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1/30/2012 Nantz National Alzheimer Center international symposium to focus on vascular clues

10/20/2011 Source: richeisen.nfl.com
Rich Eisen Podcast: Jim Nantz and Dennis Miller | Rich Eisen – NFL Network

MEMORY DISORDERS - Summer 2011 Issue - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Alzheimer’s: A Caring Son Carries On The Battle

8/25/2011 abc13 - Houston
Alzheimer's strikes successful women's coach

7/5/2011 New York TimesCity Edition
In the Stroke Belt Erosion of Memory Is More Likely Too

6/21/2011 - Guideposts
Jim Nantz: My Father's Life Lessons

Nantz National Alzheimer Center holds inaugural international symposium for Alzheimer’s disease
Houston, TX - 6/7/2011 - More than 190 Alzheimer's disease clinicians and researchers from around the world convened at The Methodist Hospital in Houston to hear about the most recent discoveries in the genetics of the disease, the use of novel diagnostic techniques and the possible options for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's. Read More

05/2011 - Heart Insight, the American Heart Association’s Magazine
The Other Dementia

1/21/2011 - CultureMap
Jim Nantz and fiance, Matt Schaub and wife, and Ballet Ball fans spice up the party circuit

1/21/2011 - CBS Early Show
Alzheimer's Center Named for Jim Nantz' Father

1/21/2011 - The New York Times
Inspired by Father, Nantz Takes Role in Alzheimer’s Research (login required)

1/20/2011 - Charlie Rose (PBS)
Jim Nantz Interview

10/29/2010 - KTRK - Houston
Vitamin B12 to treat Alzheimer's disease?

B-complex vitamins may help slow progression of dementia 
10/25/2010 - Large doses of B-complex vitamins could reduce the rate of brain shrinkage by half in elderly people with memory problems and slow the progression of dementia. Read More

Acclaimed Alzheimer's clinician-researcher to head Methodist Neurological Institute Alzheimer's Disease Center
3/23/2010 - Gustavo C. Román, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in vascular dementia, joins the Methodist Neurological Institute (NI) to continue the quest to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, a disease diagnosed in the United States every 72 seconds. Read More