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Investigator: hugo vanderstichele
Project Title: CSF Biomarker analysis for to the Adult Children Study (ACS) of the Knight Alzheimer�s Disease Research Center at Washington (recently published by JAMA NEUROLOGY)
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1510
Aim 1: AD CSF biomarker changes in cognitively normal middle-aged adults
Aim 2: Performance of individual biomarkers or combinations of biomarkers
Aim 3: Comparison of biomarkers with imaging data
Aim 4: Evaluate correlation between CSF biomarkers and cognitive performance
Investigator: John C. Morris
Project Title: Examining the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Deficits in Preclinical Dementia of the Alzheimer Type
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1511
Aim 1: Examine results from a psychometric battery of cognitive tests for patients with no evidience of clinical dementia
Aim 2: Asses the relationship between depression and preclinical AD through CSF samples analyzed for AD markers and PIB-PET amyloid imaging.
Aim 3: Compare antidepressive medication usage (e.g. SSRIs) to imaging data to assess the effect of medication usage on amyloid buildup.
Aim 4: To understand if those with depression and higher amyloid burden have worse cognitive performance.
Investigator: Brian Gordon
Project Title: Sleep effects on amyloid deposition in preclinical AD
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1512
Aim 1: Sleep quantity and quality to levels of amyloid deposition measured with PET and may be associated with structural atrophy
Aim 2: Sleep measures will predict baseline performance on psychometric testing
Aim 3: Use baseline measures of sleep will predict longitudinal amyloid, atrophy, and cognition
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Investigator: GS Day
Project Title: Evaluating the impact of medications in Alzheimer disease
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1513
Aim 1: 1. Determine whether medications previously associated with cognitive impairment (i.e., offending medications) in cognitively normal individuals, associate with cognitive impairment in Memory and Aging Participants.
Aim 2: 2. Calculate the magnitude of effect of offending medication on participants with normal cognition, preclinical Alzheimer disease (AD) and symptomatic AD.
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Investigator: Zehra Onen
Project Title: Optimal Population Screening Policies for Alzheimer’s Disease
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1514
Aim 1: To compute optimal population screening policies for Alzheimer�s Disease (AD) using Markov Decision Process (MDP) and Partially Observable MDP models.
Aim 2: To compute annual transition probabilities within AD free and preclinical stage individuals
Aim 3: To build mathematical models for biomarkers’ progression focusing on normal individuals and individuals in preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
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Investigator: Angela Curl
Project Title: Psychometric Testing of the CARS Instrument
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
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Aim 1: To test the psychometric reliability of the newly developed CARS Instrument
Aim 2: To test the psychometric validity of the newly developed CARS Instrument
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Investigator: Kirchhoff
Project Title: An Investigation of the Relationships Between Brain Structure and Attentional Control
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1516
Aim 1: To identify brain regions that support successful attentional control processes by examining the relationships between brain structure and performance on attentional control tasks.
Aim 2: To investigate the brain structural changes that lead to attentional control impairments in Alzheimer�s Disease.
Aim 3: To examine whether brain structure at least partially mediates the relationships between AD risk and attentional control.
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Investigator: Lenise Cummings-Vaughn
Project Title: Exploring AD Biomarker Disparities Between African Americans and European Americans
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1517
Aim 1: Determine whether Alzhemer Disease (AD) biomarker abnormalities vary as a function of race or ethnicity
Aim 2: Determine if African Americans with preclinical AD have a higher frequency of cerebrovascular lesions.
Aim 3: Determine if African Americans with preclinical AD have higher frequency of hypovitaminosis D.
Aim 4: Determine if African Americans with preclinical AD have a higher frequency of chronic inflammation.
Investigator: Beau Ances
Project Title: The Influence of Traumatic Brain Injury on Anatomical Morphometry in Alzheimer’s Disease
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1518
Aim 1: Are hippocampal volumes different cross-sectionally between AD patients with and without the presence of a TBI and LOC?
Aim 2: Is the degenerative component for AD patients with a TBI and LOC
Aim 3: Longitudinally, is the AD progression more drastic in patients who experienced a TBI with LOC compared to AD patients without a TBI
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Investigator: Sebastien Ourselin
Project Title: Validation of attenuation correction synthesis for PET-MR scanners
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1519
Aim 1: Validate a novel method of attenuation correction for PET-MR data by creating “pseudo-CT” images that are created based on information provided from a template library of co-registered MR and CT pairs.
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