Actively Recruiting Studies
Our Center supports a wide variety of Alzheimer’s disease-related research. If you are interested in participating in one of our studies, please reach out to our Recruitment Coordinator, Dean Sheppard at sheppard@bu.edu or call us at 617-358-4133
Everything we have learned about memory, memory treatments, and memory disorders is known because someone volunteered for a research study. Thanks to study participants, researchers are making great strides in the early diagnosis of memory disorders and identifying potential new interventions to help treat, delay the onset, and possibly prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Covid-19 Study
Summary: The purpose is to characterize the impact of COVID-19 on neurocognitive function using mobile-based cognitive assessments that may provide measurement of cognitive function with higher precision and frequency than traditional neuropsychological testing. We are recruiting adult individuals who have ever been infected with COVID-19 (COVID+) and those who have never been infected with COVID-19 (COVID-). The entire study will be done remotely.
- Participants are 18+
- Fluent in English
- Access to an internet-connected smartphone or tablet device
- No diagnosis of dementia, stroke, or major depressive disorder
BrightFocus
Summary: The purpose of conducting this research study on brain aging and the impact of Type-2 Diabetes. This study will use a form of noninvasive brain stimulation called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to measure the brain’s plasticity, which is how the brain changes and learns through experience, and relate it to cognition (memory and thinking) and measures of the brain’s structure and activity using MRI.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 65+ years old
Digital Phenotyping
Summary: The purpose of this study is to better understand Alzheimer’s disease and dementia through the use of technology like smartphone applications or wearable devices.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 40+ years old
Digital Technology
Summary: Aims to see whether brief, frequent smartphone assessment can help detect the clinical onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Measure memory and thinking in a natural environment to make detection easier and promote brain health.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 55 to 90 years old
Futuerizing Brain Health
Summary: This study seeks to gather participant feedback on a slate of technologies that could be used to detect features of Alzheimer’s Disease. This includes wearable technologies such as Fitbit, Lumosity, and experimental technologies such as Virtual Reality.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 40 to 100 years old
Chronic Stressor and Aging Study
Summary: This study aims to determine the relationship between chronic stress and the way we think and remember in older Black/African Americans.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 60 to 80 years old
Lived Experience
Summary: This study is to learn about the experiences of couples, one or both of whom may experience changes in thinking and memory over three years.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 65 to 105 years old
Sleep Impact on Memory
Summary: Our objective is to test whether event-related potentials (ERPs) together with behavioral memory paradigms are feasible to study the memory enhancement that occurs during sleep and its interaction with age and disease state.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 50 to 99 years old
Cognitive and physical activity for people with cognitive impairment
Summary: A study looking at the correlation between walking and listening to music on cognitive function in people with Mild Cognitive Impairment; sessions will occur at the BU Track and Tennis Center.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Participants are 50 to 90 years old