Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research

Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research

Bridging clinical and foundational research to catalyze discovery into neurodegeneration and speed the race to treatments.

Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research

Bridging clinical and foundational research to catalyze discovery into neurodegeneration and speed the race to treatments.

Brown University’s Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research is committed to advancing early detection and individualized treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. 

Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Significant investment and advancements in knowledge and discovery have bolstered Brown’s strength in Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration research. The Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research integrates the expertise of Brown’s Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Division of Biology and Medicine.

Housed within the Carney Institute, the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research catalyzes collaborations across basic and clinical research groups toward uncovering when, where and how Alzheimer’s disease first arises to advance the pace toward treatment. Our research projects integrate knowledge across biological systems in humans, including behavioral, neural, vascular and immune.

Alzheimer's Disease By the Numbers

Source: Alzheimer's Association

6th

leading cause of death in the U.S.

>6 million

people are living with Alzheimer's in the U.S.

13 million

people are expected to live with Alzheimer's by 2050

1 in 3

seniors in the U.S. dies with Alzheimer's or dementia

16%

increase of Alzheimer's and dementia deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Research

The Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research fosters collaborations across basic and clinical research groups that work toward uncovering when, where and how Alzheimer’s disease arises.
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Patients & Families

Study participants play a crucial role in the discovery of new knowledge to prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
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Carney Institute for Brain Science

Moving to a multifaceted view of dementia

On September 23, Edward “Ted” Huey, M.D., joined some of the nation’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease at the National Institute on Aging to help set research priorities and to present his work. Huey’s main message: Memory loss is not the only sign of this common and devastating disease.

Alzheimer’s and related dementias also cause motor symptoms, like hand tremors or weakness. And there can be neuropsychiatric symptoms: angry outbursts, sudden apathy, even visual hallucinations. Loss of appetite and weight loss and trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep are also common signs of Alzheimer’s and other common forms of dementia, which afflict more than 6 million people in the United States – including 40% of people over the age of 85, according to federal statistics.
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Carney Institute for Brain Science

Ted Huey Named Associate Director of Brown’s Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research

Edward “Ted” Huey, the director of the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital and a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, has been named the associate director of Brown University's Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research.
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Carney Institute for Brain Science

Brown appoints world expert Bess Frost to lead its Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Bess Frost has been appointed the Salame-Feraud Director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, a joint center between Brown University’s Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Division of Biology and Medicine.
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