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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE.Documented on December 6th,2022. The Oregon Alzheimer?s Disease Center?s (OADC) Clinical Core program, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Kaye, performs longitudinal studies of the natural history of brain aging and Alzheimer''s disease in patients and healthy control volunteers. These studies which are performed through standardized neurological, neuro-psychological, and brain-imaging assessments are carried out in the Alzheimer''s Disease and Memory Assessment Clinics as well as through community-based assessments conducted in the homes of study volunteers. The Layton Center Neuroimaging Lab conducts brain-imaging MRI brain scans to assist in diagnosis of brain disease. Typically, MRI images are taken from three different planes. These planes are known as the coronal plane, sagittal plane and the axial plane. Each series of MRI images is named after the plane from which they were obtained. The Clinical Core?s research is focused on preclinical and early Alzheimer?s disease (AD) yet is also poised to participate in other relevant new research as it arises. The OADC Clinical Core recruits, assesses and follows individuals from population groups at high risk for dementia such as: the healthy ?oldest old?, subjects with family history of AD, and subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Research with underserved populations The Oregon Alzheimer?s Disease Center also maintains two Satellite programs to enhance understanding of underserved populations: The Klamath Exceptional Aging Project (KEAP) is a community-based study of brain aging being conducted in Klamath Falls. The African American Dementia and Aging Project (AADAPt) s a Portland-based cohort of 100 African American seniors.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on December 5th,2022. The Education and Information Core of the Layton Aging & Alzheimer?s Disease Center develops and carries out a wide range of educational programs to: * Increase public awareness and understanding of Alzheimer''s Disease research, * Aid in the recruitment of subjects for research studies, and * Improve care and quality of life for persons with dementia and support their family caregivers. Our educational activities include: * Training for health care professionals which include seminars and lectures and we also provide ?hands-on? experiences for medical students, * Community education on Alzheimer''s disease and related dementia disorders, * Workshops on doctor ? patient communication for families and caregivers, * Collaboration with community organizations and groups to promote awareness of the disease and publicize research activities, a particular focus is underserved populations including rural communities and minority groups, * Collaboration with other organizations that serve patients and families, e.g., the Alzheimer?s Association and other state and local agencies that serve the elderly and the loved ones who care for them, and * Distribution of printed material that provides topical information on a variety of subjects related to Alzheimer?s disease and dementia and how best to provide quality of life to those with the disease. * A newsletter, Aging & Alzheimer''s Update, which is published twice per year. The Education Core administers the Oregon Income Tax Check-off Alzheimer''s Research Fund in collaboration with The Oregon Partnership for Alzheimer''s Research, a community advisory committee.

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The Swedish Registry was established in the 1960s to study how smoking affects our health. Then little was known about the dangers of smoking. There is, at present, information on approximately 85 000 twin pairs, both monozygotic and dizygotic. As described by Lichtenstein et al., 2002, Pedersen et al., 2002 and Lichtenstein et al., 2006, the Swedish Twin Registry (STR) is the largest and most comprehensive twin registry in the world. Founded in 1961, the registry covers all like-sexed twin births since 1886, and all twin births (like- and unlike-sexed) since 1906. There are currently 89,000 pairs of twins registered, of which both members of 65,000 pairs are alive, with regular updates concerning vital status, addresses, hospital discharges, tumors, and causes of death, through subscriptions to national registries. Furthermore, there is extensive epidemiological data (exposures, symptoms and disease through questionnaires or interviews) on all pairs born 1986 or earlier, for most individuals involving 30 year baseline to follow-up information. Furthermore, data from the cohort of twins born since 1991 have been or will be contacted with a telephone interview with the parents of twins as they turn 9 (CATSS). Because the STR is an (inter)national resource, we are receptive to collaboration academic and industry-based researchers. Regardless of the type of research all potential collaborations or data access agreements must be first reviewed Steering Committee of the STR.

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