Hello and welcome to the first edition of the bimonthly STIMulus Newsletter. STIM (Students for Technology In Medicine) is a new student interest group dedicated to all things tech in medicine. One of our primary goals is to educate ourselves and our peers about all the latest and greatest happenings in the world of medical bio-tech, and come together to discuss the incredible advances that are...

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE Episodic memory loss is a hall-mark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with recall of recent events becoming progressively difficult. A commonly used tool, the recollection of US presidents, was assessed in evaluating episodic versus semantic memory loss among AD patients compared with spouse controls. METHODS A total of 36 patients (12 men, 24 women) with possible or probable ...