WASHINGTON, D.C.: New Zealand’s first Dementia Prevention Research Clinic will open in Auckland.
It will be the first of a national network of Dementia Prevention Research Clinics established by Brain Research New Zealand (BRNZ).
BRNZ is a Government funded Centre of Research Excellence undertaking ground breaking scientific studies on the aging brain and aging-related brain disorders.
The Minister for Science and Innovation, the Hon Steven Joyce, will formally open the first clinic at the University’s Centre for Brain Research in Grafton. Further Dementia Prevention Research Clinics are scheduled to open in Christchurch and Dunedin later this year.
This national collaborative research effort involves partnerships between neuroscientists from the Universities of Auckland, Otago, Canterbury and AUT, clinicians from the District Health Boards, and the community.
The Dementia Prevention Research Clinics will be at the frontline of collaborative research studies involving individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MPI) and those with very early Alzheimer’s disease…