Welcome to the website for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), in the Department of Neurology, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The Washington University ADRC is one of  32 centers funded or otherwise supported by the National Institute on Aging with the collective aim of facilitating advanced research on clinical, genetic, neuropathological, neuroanatomical, biomedical, psychosocial, and neuropsychological aspects of Alzheimer's disease and related brain disorders. Our Center and its clinical research arm - the Memory and Aging Project - are at the forefront of a worldwide effort to uncover key causal factors in the development of Alzheimer's disease, with a goal of developing more effective treatments and an eventual cure. For patient clinical care please visit the website for the Memory Diagnostic Center.


Director & Principal Investigator:
John C. Morris, M.D.

The Alzheimer's Project on HBO, May 10-12 
This 4-part HBO series includes interviews with Washington University ADRC investigators, research participants, and patients from the Memory Diagnostic Center.
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State of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
May 26, 20009, 12:00pm
Connor Auditorium @ Farrell Learning & Teaching Ctr.


7th Leonard Berg Symposium - October 1-2, 2009
Eric P. Newman Education Center
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Alzheimer's Research at Washington University (pdf)

Brain damage found in cognitively normal people with Alzheimer's marker

Buckles & ADRC crew seek root of Alzheimer's

Web surfing could keep dementia at bay

Rapid changes measured in key Alzheimer's protein

ADRC to lead international Alzheimer's research network

Gene variation linked to earlier onset of Alzheimer's

Researchers close in on origins of AD plaques

WUSTL & AstraZeneca account research collaboration

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