Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center

The Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (RADC)[1] is a research center located in Rush University Medical Center. The Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center is one of 29 Alzheimer’s centers in the U.S. designated and funded by the National Institute on Aging.[2]

Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
MissionDiagnosis, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s and other dementias
HeadDavid A. Bennett, M.D., Director
Location
Chicago
,
Illinois
Coordinates41.8736016°N 87.6717202°W / 41.8736016; -87.6717202
Address600 South Paulina Street, Suite 1028, Chicago, IL 60612
Websitewww.rushu.rush.edu/research/departmental-research/rush-alzheimers-disease-center

The RADC is a leader in research into the causes and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.[3] One of its earliest research projects was the Religious Orders Study.[4] An important influence on the development of the Religious Orders Study was the Nun Study founded by Dr. David Snowdon. The Religious Orders Study was initially funded by the National Institute on Aging in 1993. It is a study utilizing volunteers in the religious community, including priests, nuns, and brothers, who agree to donate their brains to the RADC after they die, providing doctors with an opportunity to look for postmortem correlations between lifestyle and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists at the RADC use the brains to study a broad range of factors relating to Alzheimer's disease and other common diseases of age, and share tissue samples from those brains, as well as data, with other medical institutions around the country.[5]

The RADC's Memory and Aging Project (MAP)[6] followed in 1997 and uses volunteers from the community. The study design is similar to the Religious Orders Study and enrolls volunteers without dementia who agree to annual clinical evaluation and organ donation.[7]

Both studies are ongoing, and have created research opportunities at Rush University, including the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay MIND diet research, Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), which is a study of decline in cognitive function and risk of Alzheimer’s disease in older African Americans, with brain donation after death added as an optional component,[8] the Latino CORE study, relating to older Latino Adults,[9][10] and a study newly-funded by NIA to study Alzheimer's disease in Brazil.[11]

The RADC also sponsors an array of community outreach and education programs.[12]

References
  1. "Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center". Rush University Medical Center.
  2. "Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers". National Institute on Aging. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  3. Illinois Department of Public Health (January 2014). "Alzheimer's Disease Illinois State Plan 2014-2017 Report and Recommendations" (PDF). Springfield, IL, US: State of Illinois. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  4. Biemer, John (2010-08-13). "Nuns' other calling? Fighting Alzheimer's". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  5. Springen, Karen (2011-03-08). "Rush Medical Center Docs Seek to Solve Alzheimer's Mystery". Chicago Magazine.
  6. "Memory and Aging Project, Epidemologic Research, Rush University". Rush University. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  7. Bennett, D. A.; Schneider, J. A.; Buchman, A. S.; Barnes, L. L.; Boyle, P. A.; Wilson, R. S. (2012). "Overview and Findings from the Rush Memory and Aging Project". Current Alzheimer Research. 9 (6): 646–663. doi:10.2174/156720512801322663. PMC 3439198. PMID 22471867. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  8. L. Barnes, Lisa; C. Shah, Raj; T. Aggarwal, Neelum; A. Bennett, David; A. Schneider, Julie (2012-06-01). "The Minority Aging Research Study: Ongoing Efforts to Obtain Brain Donation in African Americans without Dementia". Current Alzheimer Research. 9 (6): 734–745. doi:10.2174/156720512801322627. ISSN 1567-2050. PMID 22471868.
  9. Marquez, David X.; Wilbur, JoEllen; Hughes, Susan L.; Berbaum, Michael L.; Wilson, Robert S.; Buchner, David M.; McAuley, Edward (2014). "B.A.I.L.A. — A Latin dance randomized controlled trial for older Spanish-speaking Latinos: Rationale, design, and methods". Contemporary Clinical Trials. 38 (2): 397–408. doi:10.1016/j.cct.2014.06.012. ISSN 1551-7144. PMC 4123962. PMID 24969395.
  10. "BAILA: Being Active, Increasing Latinos Health Aging - Rush University". Rush University. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  11. Farfel, Jose M.; Yu, Lei; De Jager, Philip L.; Schneider, Julie A.; Bennett, David A. (2016). "Association of APOE with tau-tangle pathology with and without β-amyloid". Neurobiology of Aging. 37: 19–25. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.09.011. ISSN 0197-4580. PMC 4716785. PMID 26481403.
  12. "Community Education and Outreach - Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center - Rush University". www.rushu.rush.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
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