Alzheimer's Disease: Helpful Information and Resources for Patients and their Families - Video

In this video, Dr. Annelly Buré-Reyes speaks about dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

Dr. Buré’s clinical interest includes the assessment of changes in thinking abilities and mood in young adults, middle aged adults and geriatric patients with known or suspected neurological conditions using comprehensive neuropsychological tools. She also conducts pre and post-surgical evaluations with candidates for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery for the treatment of movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease (PD) and essential tremor.

Her research interest includes understanding the influence of cultural factors and educational attainment on neuropsychological test performance. She has been involved in multiple ongoing research projects that include frailty and cognition, evaluation and intervention of cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis, and mood and cognitive decline in PD.

Dr. Buré also participates in community activities with the Latino Center on Aging and has been involved with psychoeducational programs, conferences and radio show for the Spanish-speaking community, caregivers, and professionals.

Biographical Information/Education: Dr. Buré was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to Puerto Rico with her family at age 14. She attended the University of Puerto Rico (UPR-Rio Piedras) and graduated Magna cum Laude with a bachelor’s in psychology. She earned a master’s degree in general psychology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). She moved to Florida to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a concentration in neuropsychology at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). She completed her pre-doctoral internship training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)/ Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center Consortium. She worked as a graduate student assistant at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Division of Neuropsychology prior to completing her internship, and returned as a neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow in 2016. After completing her fellowship in August 2018, she joined the Division of Neuropsychology as a faculty member and she works providing clinical services in UHealth Boca Raton in English and Spanish.

Resources shared in the video:

Alzheimer's Association: https://www.alz.org/

Recommended book: https://www.amazon.com/36-Hour-Day-Alzheimer-Disease-Dementias/dp/1455521159


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