Goals and Activities
- Assemble and follow a well-characterized diverse group of normal and cognitively impaired participants with standardized medical, neurologic, and neuropsychological evaluations.
- Facilitate the acquisition of biospecimens (blood and CSF), sensory and motor data, brain imaging and novel biomarkers from the participants.
- Provide participants and data to Duke and UNC investigators and the national Alzheimer’s disease research community for further investigation.
About Our Study
The Duke-UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s Memory & Aging Study works to identify the biological factors involved in normal brain aging and disease with the help of a diverse group of young and older people with and without memory impairments.
Other ADRD Clinical Studies
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Core Leader
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Richard O’Brien, MD, PhDChair, Department of Neurology, Duke University |
Associate Core Leaders
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Kim G. Johnson, MDAssistant Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University |
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Heidi Roth, MDAssociate Professor of Sleep Medicine, Memory, and Cognitive Disorders, Department of Neurology, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Junior Associate Core Leader
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Andy Liu, MD, MSAssistant Professor, Duke |
Staff
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Christina CameronClinical Research Coordinator |
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Emily MaingiClinical Research Specialist |
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Sofia RoyoClinical Research Coordinator |
Faculty
- James Burke, MD, PhD
Biomedical Lead
- Guy Potter, PhD
Neuropsychological Leader
- Whitney Robinson, PhD
Co-Investigator
- Patrick Smith, PhD
Investigator