Medical News Today: Is virtual reality the next frontier of Alzheimer’s diagnosis?

New research that aimed to highlight the potential of new technologies to diagnose disease has suggested that virtual reality may play a crucial role in monitoring Alzheimer’s disease. VR headsets may soon serve as a better alternative to standard testing for Alzheimer’s. Dementia is a general term to describe the impairment of cognitive functions such…

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Corinne Warren, John Sawyer Jr.

Corinne Elizabeth Warren and John Ansel Sawyer Jr. were married June 1 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Heather Rathbone, a Universal Life minister, officiated. Ms. Warren, 29, is a trial lawyer for the Maryland office of the public defender in Baltimore. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a law degree…

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Alexandra Peacock, Katrina Fahey

Alexandra Peacock and Katrina Sachs Fahey were married June 1. Katherine R. Canny, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for this event, officiated at the Santa Margarita Ranch in Santa Margarita, Calif. The couple met at the University of Michigan, from which each received a law degree. Ms. Peacock (left),…

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Emily Hogikyan, Thaddeus Chatto

Dr. Emily Margaret Hogikyan and Thaddeus Joseph Chatto were married June 1 at the Old St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Detroit. The Most Rev. Bernardito Auza, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York, performed the ceremony. Dr. Hogikyan, 26, is an incoming pediatrics resident at the Ann & Robert H.…

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Kelsey Parsons, Matthew Latessa

Kelsey Anne Hovbrender Parsons and Matthew Richard Latessa were married June 1 at the Green Building, an events space in Brooklyn. Stephanie R. Mercurio, a Universal Life minister, officiated. Ms. Parsons, 29, is a communications officer in Manhattan for the International Rescue Committee, the humanitarian organization for refugees and other vulnerable populations. She graduated with…

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Alana Warhit, Kevin Beckoff

Dr. Alana Warhit and Kevin Sean Beckoff were married May 27 at the Woodbury Jewish Center in Woodbury, N.Y. Rabbi Joe Wolfson officiated. Dr. Warhit, 27, is a resident in the psychiatry department of the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in chemistry and Jewish studies from Columbia, and…

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Pippa Biddle, Benjamin Davidson

Philippa Lloyd Biddle and Benjamin Quittner Davidson were married June 1 at Christ Episcopal Church in Dover, Del. The Rev. Charles Weiss, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony. The bride, who is 26 and known as Pippa, is a writer based in Germantown, N.Y. Her essays and articles have been published by The Atlantic, Guernica…

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