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Media Spotlight: WRAL reports on Duke Alzheimer’s research
posted September 16th, 2009
Jeffrey Browndyke, Ph.D., discusses his latest Alzheimer's disease research.
This video is based on Duke research that shows the gene most closely linked to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease affects brain activity in young adults, much earlier in life than previously reported.
Jeffrey Browndyke, Ph.D., study co-author and director of the Functional Imaging Neurogenomics of Disease Lab said, “It’s just that there are fundamental brain differences that we don’t quite understand yet.” Study co-authors include Jared Stokes, Anna Need, James R. Burke, Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer and Roberto Cabeza.
Read the news release.