“We are grateful for the willingness of the Tampa Bay community to support our efforts to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia by participating in the PACT trial,” said USF site principal investigator Jerri Edwards, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. Dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease leads to a loss in thinking, reasoning, memory, and everyday functional abilities. PACT will be the largest primary prevention trial to date designed to rigorously test the effectiveness of computer-based training to protect against MCI and dementias. The grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, supported under Award Number R01AG070349, expands USF’s Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training (PACT) study. (April 6, 2021) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of South Florida (USF) total expected funds of $44.4 million over the next five years to study whether computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementias like Alzheimer’s disease, in older adults.
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