# Professor Melissa Schilling's research on the pathway between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease is featured

1 Faculty News April 21, 2016 ![Bend Bulletin logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bulletin192x144.jpg?itok=tY3-GLQU)>

Excerpt from [Bend Bulletin](http://www.bendbulletin.com/health/4215441-151/outsider-suspects-pre-diabetes-plays-role-in-alzheimers#) -- "A professor of business management took it upon herself to untangle the evidence and published her theory in the recent edition of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. New York University professor [Melissa Schilling](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling) feels so strongly that pre-diabetes plays a role in many cases of Alzheimer’s that she’s asking all neurologists to test their dementia patients for glucose tolerance."

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