Status: Enrolling
Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
Study Coordinator: Nilene Crisci
Phone: 713.441.3771
To clarify the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of AD, it is important to measure inflammation in brain of people with AD and its relationship with abnormal tau, as the disease progresses. So far, there is no in vivo data in humans verif ... Read more >
Status: Open Not Enrolling
Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
Study Coordinator: Benjamin Batista Ramos
Phone: 346.238.1259
The overall goal of ADNI3 is to determine the relationships among the clinical, cognitive, imaging, genetic and biochemical biomarker characteristics of the entire spectrum of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as the pathology evolves from normal aging ... Read more >
Status: Enrolling
Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
Study Coordinator: Andrea Franco Pando
Phone: 713.441.1150
The purpose of this study is to clarify at the individual level what genes and changes in the body predispose people to Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. We will measure changes in brain imaging, body fluids, and memory or thinking abiliti ... Read more >
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Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
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The purpose of the study is to see if daily transdermal nicotine is able to produce a significant cognitive, clinical and functional improvement in participants with MCI. Neuronal nicotinic receptors have long been known to play a critical role ... Read more >
Status: Enrolling
Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
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Schizophrenic and bipolar psychoses are chronic and disabling brain disorders that affect people of all backgrounds. It is thought that in the brain of people with schizophrenic psychosis there is a decreased amount of a receptor known as the N- ... Read more >
Status: Enrolling
Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
Study Coordinator: Nilene Crisci
Phone: 713.441.3771
Some people who have what doctors currently call schizophrenia or bipolar disease may actually have a brain disease caused by auto-antibodies. Auto-antibodies are produced when the normal defense mechanism of the body goes wrong and begins to at ... Read more >
Status: Enrolling
Investigator: Joseph Masdeu
Study Coordinator: Nilene Crisci
Phone: 713.441.3771
The discovery of AD risk genes coding for proteins involved in inflammation has revived the interest in neuroinflammation (or brain inflammation) in the pathogenesis of AD. To understand the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of AD, it is ... Read more >