The Knight ADRC has supported many investigators at Washington University and at other institutions over the years. We wish to avoid the situation where two investigators study the same research question to avoid duplication of effort and potential conflict. To determine if your topic has already been studied with our resources, please search our database. If you find that your topic or a related topic has been submitted, you may wish to contact the investigator to inquire about their findings to determine how you might proceed. You may wish to collaborate or modify your request to avoid overlap. The results below reflect requests made since online requests have been accepted. As such, not all fields will have data as certain information, such as aims, were not collected until recently. If an entry has been assigned an ID number (e.g. T1004), the full request has been submitted and is either approved, disapproved or in process. If an entry has no ID number, then it represents a submission that has not yet been reviewed. Search terms are applied across an entire requests application including variables not displayed below. A more specific, detailed search may yield better results depending upon your needs.
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Investigator: John C. Morris
Project Title: Correlation of AD biomarkers with CDR 0.5 diagnoses
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1115
Aim 1: Correlate PIB retention with CDR 0.5 diagnoses
Aim 2: Correlate CSF levels of Abeta and tau with CDR 0.5 diagnoses
Aim 3: Correlate nWBV and hippocampal volume with CDR 0.5 diagnoses
Aim 4: Correlate pyschometric performance with CDR 0.5 diagnoses

Investigator: Carolyn Baum
Project Title: Contribution to a Metaanalysis on Apraxia
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1116
Aim 1: To respond to a request from Francois Osiurak, PhD, for data that was already published
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Investigator: Dr. John C. Morris
Project Title: The rule of sleep, personality, and aging: How these interactions affect cognition
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1119
Aim 1: When comparing CDR 0 to CDR 0.5, 0.5’s would have higher levels of neuroticism & sleep difficulties
Aim 2: Within CDR0, those with high neuroticism & sleep difficulties will have lower cognition performance
Aim 3: Of those who progress to higher CDR, more of the high neuroticism and sleep problems group
Aim 4: High neuroticism group show more awakening and activity on actigraphs

Investigator: Denise Head
Project Title: The Relationship Between Stress and Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Diseases
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1123
Aim 1: To determine the relationship between stress exposure and AD biomarkers
Aim 2: To investigate whether stress exacerbates the effects of age on AD biomarkers
Aim 3: To examine whether stress exacerbates the effects of APOE e4 and/or met-BDNF allele on AD biomarkers
Aim 4: To examine the interaction effect between stress and exercise on AD biomarkers

Investigator: Alison Goate
Project Title: Genetics of CSF endophenotypes for AD
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1110
Aim 1: To identify genes that influence the CSF levels of AD biomarkers
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Investigator: Siekyeong Kim
Project Title: Relationship of Cortical Thickness to Brain Morphology and Body Size
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1113
Aim 1: What is the relationship between cortical thickness and head size?
Aim 2: Are there differences in the above relationship by CDR status?
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Investigator: B. Joy Snider, Anne Fagan
Project Title: CSF biomarkers and rate of cognitive decline in very mild DAT
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1117
Aim 1: Look for correlation between CSF biomarkers and rate of decline in very mild DAT
Aim 2: look for correlation between ApoE genotype and rate of decline in very mild DAT
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Investigator: Jessica Nichols (student in Friedman Program)
Project Title: Effect of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Resting State Functional Connectivity
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1120
Aim 1: look at how T2DM affects resting state functional connectivity and if it is a risk factor for AD
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Investigator: Bruno M. Jedynak
Project Title: Statistical Analysis of the Progression of AD
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1114
Aim 1: Validate the findings from ADNI data using ADRC data
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Investigator: Robyn A Honea
Project Title: The Role of Genetic Variation in Alzheimer’s Disease Neurodegeneration
Date: December 21, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Request ID: D1121
Aim 1: Assess the relationship of selected candidate genes with MRI phenotypes and cognitive markers of AD
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