The overall goal of this NIH funded project is to adapt a validated digital health intervention called Medication Education, Decision Support, Reminding, and Monitoring (MEDSReM) system (IRB: 22546), currently designed to improve hypertension medication adherence in cognitively normal older adults, to support self-management of hypertension medication for persons with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI).
MindCrowd is a first-of-its-kind web-based memory study to identify cognitive performance outliers and to better understand their genetic differences. In Phase I, the goal is to have 1 million individuals, aged 18+, take the 10-minute online test and gather information for a more detailed Phase II study.
The National Institute of Aging (NIA) - Family Based Study - Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (FBS EOAD) is a study to understand the genetic factors influencing early-onset Alzheimer disease (EOAD) risk. The study includes individuals with EOAD, mild cognitive impairment, or other dementias. The study also recruits additional family members without dementia or memory problems that are willing to participate.
PodCaring is a virtual study of the potential use of listening to the Dementia Untangled Podcast as an intervention to decrease anger, burden, depression and loneliness and increase confidence for caregivers. Dementia Untangled is a podcast developed by Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in 2021. Offering expert guidance and support for the millions of people living with dementia and their care partners, this award-winning podcast focuses on innovative ideas, practical strategies, and proven methods in an approachable, conversational format.
BrainCheck is looking for adults 60 and older with memory impairment to play brain games!
Contribute to cognitive health research by taking brain games on your smartphone.
Do you or your partner live with dementia? University of Michigan researchers want to learn about how daily experiences and sleep patterns influence well-being and brain health!
SLEEPMATE aims to find out whether a tailored cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia intervention can improve sleep for both persons living with cognitive changes and their caregivers. Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent in these pairs, and they increase the risks for many psychological and cognitive health issues for both persons. This research will help to determine if the behavioral intervention plan provided is practical and useful for pairs experiencing sleep problems.
PPMI seeks to understand how Parkinson’s disease starts and changes over time, who gets it and why. It follows people both with and without Parkinson’s to learn more about these processes. The overall goal of PPMI is to identify markers of disease progression for use in clinical trials for new drug development to treat or even prevent PD before it begins.
The Staying Connected through Communication Study is a survey for people who have noticed a change in their thinking and memory and are concerned about, or have a diagnosis of early stage dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). This study also includes family members and/or friends of people with MCI or dementia.
The aim of this research study is to investigate techniques that older adults can use benefit the performance of memory tasks into late life.