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Alzheimer Disease
Patient databank paves way for improved treatment
March 31st, 2003
A growing databank, with details about attention, memory, and visual perceptions, as well as the blood and DNA of Alzheimer disease patients, is helping unravel the mysteries of the degenerative brain disease, its organizers say. "A lot of people are really interested in helping us find out what causes this disease," Dr. Jerry J. Buccafusco, director of the Alzheimer's Research Center at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), said of the Neurological Diseases Databank Repository. Studies already making use of the data include one examining the autoimmune aspects of the devastating disease and another looking at whether routine tests that are part of a...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2003-03-31)
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