NIH publishes progress report on Alzheimer’s disease
The National Institute onAging (NIA), part of the Federal Government’s National Institutes ofHealth (NIH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, hasprimary responsibility for basic, clinical, behavioral, and socialresearch in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as well as research aimed atfinding ways to prevent and treat AD. The Institute’s AD researchprogram is integral to one of its main goals, which is to enhance thequality of life of older people by expanding knowledge about the agingbrain and nervous system. This 2007 Progress Report on Alzheimer’s Disease summarizes recent AD research conducted or supported by NIA and other components of NIH, including:
- National Center for Research Resources
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institute of Nursing Research
Modest AD research efforts also are supported by the National CancerInstitute, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and HumanDevelopment, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, andJohn E. Fogarty International Center.
In Remembrance
The 2007 Progress Report on Alzheimer’s Diseaseis dedicated to Robert Katzman, M.D. (1925–2008), an internationallyknown AD research pioneer who fundamentally changed the way scientistsand clinicians thought about the brain disorder we now know asAlzheimer’s disease, and the first to detail its prevalence andseverity, in 1976. Dr. Katzman was founding director of the NIA-fundedAD Research Center at the University of California San Diego one of theoriginal members of NIA’s National Advisory Council on Aging, and afounder of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Get the report: http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/ADProgress2007/