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MIND Matters | Quarterly Newsletter | Spring 2025 Carousel SliderCommentaryCommunity EventsCOVID-19In the NewsParticipants

MIND Matters | Quarterly Newsletter | Spring 2025

Message from the Director Dear Friends of UCI MIND, Please enjoy this issue of MIND Matters. We include a description and photos from our collaborative event with the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Music, "Finding Light: Alzheimer’s Stories." Then, be sure to watch some of this amazing performance here: Concert Choir. This event in some ways exemplifies the mission of UCI MIND. Though our investigators spend nearly all of their time in the lab or clinic conducting state-of the art research, we never lose sight of the human elements of disease and this powerful collaboration through…
Megan Witbracht, PhD
June 6, 2025
MIND Matters | Quarterly Newsletter | Winter 2025 Carousel SliderCommentaryCommunity EventsCOVID-19In the NewsParticipants

MIND Matters | Quarterly Newsletter | Winter 2025

Message from the Director For many, the new year is a time for fresh starts and resolutions. As we enter 2025, we at UCI MIND are taking the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to the mission to conduct research to discover solutions for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. UCI MIND investigators are unwavering in our commitment to this mission. The remainder of this newsletter, as with all of our newsletters, describes the manifold elements of the work of UCI MIND—from conducting fundamental basic science, to running vital clinical trials, to sharing our knowledge with you the community we serve and…
Megan Witbracht, PhD
March 7, 2025
A Call to Action to Diminish Dementia Risk and Optimize Aging among Black Adults Carousel SliderCommunity EventsIn the News

A Call to Action to Diminish Dementia Risk and Optimize Aging among Black Adults

Recent research has indicated that Americans face an increased lifetime risk of developing dementia. This finding has served as the topic of conversation from the New York Times to Saturday Night Live. Beneath the main headline, the increased lifetime risk of dementia was particularly pronounced among Black adults, who were in danger of developing dementia at three times the rate of White adults and with dementia arriving earlier. Dementia is life-changing for the person with cognitive impairment but also affects the spouses, adult children, and other supporters of older adults. In the article that sparked much of the recent attention,…
Crystal M. Glover, PhD
January 21, 2025

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RESEARCH HEROES

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A dollar invested here is like a dollar invested for the rest of the world.

Burton YoungPhilanthropist & Leadership Council Member
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Our desire is to do what we can to help find a cure for this disease.

Roger LisabethPhilanthropist & Study Partner
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We are at the forefront of finding solutions, but we need the help of the community to make these promising studies as successful as possible.

Joshua Grill, PhDResearcher & Director
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Hopefully the research will find cures for people with this disease. That’s why I volunteer and devote time. That’s the whole reason.

Henry WuResearch Participant
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I think it’s very important for people to participate in Alzheimer's prevention clinical trials...I have {Alzheimer's} in my family and I’m hopeful that what I’m doing will help people in the future.

Marsha GroveResearch Participant
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We are made of memories, and the thought of such a disease capable of disassociating us from the people we love and the world made me want to be a part of a team of researchers who are fighting not only for a better understanding of the disease, but for a cure.

Stefania Forner, PhDResearcher
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I began participating in research after my mother passed away with Alzheimer’s in 2000...I feel like I’m contributing. I want to do anything I can to help the research that’s being done.

Linda BenjaminResearch Participant
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My family donated {my husband's} brain to research. At every level we were treated with respect and dignity, and we considered it a privilege to be a part of the research to find a cure for this horrible disease.

Dee MaltbyStudy Partner
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As I saw my grandfather and so many others lose their memories, it became obvious to me that I should pursue this path and join efforts with a team of admirable researchers to understand and fight this devastating disease.

Alessandra Martini, PhDResearcher
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If we can collectively contribute to future generations, who knows what can be achieved.

John BakerResearch Participant