Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Life Experiences and the Brain Histone Epigenome
Description: PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE Cognitive decline and dementia represent a large and growing public health problem. The prevention of dementia provides the best long-term strategy to reduce the human and economic toll of disease. The identification of epigenetic marks that link experiential factors with cognitive decline and dementia could provide important clues for the treatment and prevention of a common and devastating problem of aging and thereby improve the health and well being of older person.
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: RC2
Start date: 2009-09-30
End date: 2012-08-31
Investigator: DAVID ALAN BENNETT
Institution: RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Funded outputs count: 149
Funder award ID: RC2AG036547
OpenAlex ID: G638767790