Better days.
Sweeter memories.
More good years
together.

Changing what's possible for Individuals with Alzheimer's

Families facing Alzheimer's disease know it's so much more than memory loss. It's the quiet heartbreak of losing someone who is still here. It's seeing the life you've shared slowly become unrecognizable.

What if families could have more good days?

Boys Town Researchers are working on ways to detecting Alzheimer's earlier, when treatment can slow its progression and give families more time and more of their life together.

Too many diagnoses come too late. With your help, that can change.

The Power of Early Detection

Alzheimer’s treatment works best in the earliest stages, before the damage takes too much away. That’s why early detection is so critical, and why the work happening right here matters so deeply.

The Boys Town National Research Hospital Institute for Human Neuroscience, an international leader in neuroscience research, is helping unlock the mysteries of the brain.

Here, researchers are working to detect Alzheimer’s sooner — when intervention can make the biggest difference — and long before the person we love begins to slip away.

This work is powered by one of the world’s most advanced brain imaging technologies: magnetoencephalography (MEG).

With it, our researchers aim to change the story for more than 7 million people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer’s, and for everyone who loves them.

"Now, if Alzheimer's is diagnosed early, a lot can be done to slow it down and give families more good years."

What is MEG?

MEG (magnetoencephalography) technology uses very sensitive magnetic sensors that are configured within a helmet to measure human brain function. The technology is noninvasive and totally silent, and unique in that it can measure what is happening in the brain at a millisecond level. This high temporal precision allows researchers to image the brain as cognition evolves, thereby allowing dynamic maps of neural activity to be created.

"We're looking for a marker that is definitive for Alzheimer's. The MEG provides a critical picture."

Institute for Human Neuroscience - Research at a Glance

This is where discovery becomes hope.

Give Families the Gift of Time

Every day, families are living with a question they can’t answer:

How long before Alzheimer’s takes away the connection we’ve always known?

Earlier detection can give families more time — to have the comfort of each other and the moments that define a life together.

But progress doesn’t happen on its own.

Breakthroughs at Boys Town National Research Hospital are within reach, and your support can make them real.

If you’ve ever loved someone and feared losing them too soon, and if you believe more time is everything, this is your moment to act.

Help make earlier detection — and more good years — possible.