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.
Join 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.
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Visit the Duke-UNC ADRC Clinical Studies database to find out more about current opportunities to engage in Alzheimer’s and related dementias research.
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, MDGeriatric Psychiatrist, Duke |
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Heidi Roth, MDAssociate Professor, UNC |
Junior Associate Core Leader:
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Andy Liu, MD, MSAssistant Professor, Duke |
Faculty:
- James Burke, MD, PhD
Biomedical Lead
- Guy Potter, PhD
Neuropsychological Leader
- Whitney Robinson, PhD
Co-Investigator
- Patrick Smith, PhD
Investigator
Staff:
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Shannon Casey Clinical Research Coordinator shannon.casey@duke.edu |
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Carolina Quiroga, MD, MBA Clinical Research Coordinator carolina.quiroga@duke.edu |
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Shaina L. Roth, MS Clinical Research Specialist roths@neurology.unc.edu |
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Lindsay Washington Clinical Research Specialist lmw101@duke.edu |
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