Indiana University Bloomington - Can 'the social brain' protect against Alzheimer's? NIH awards IU team $3.5 million to find out

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Can 'the social brain' protect against Alzheimer's? NIH awards IU team $3.5 million to find out

 

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Indiana University, 19 November 2020

https://news.iu.edu/stories/2020/11/iub/releases/19-nih-funding-alzheimers-disease-social-connectedness.html?_ga=2.47815527.1315323179.1608711046-1213314253.1608711046

 

From the article:

An interdisciplinary team led by Indiana University social neuroscientist Anne Krendl was awarded $3.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to navigate a phenomenon with major promise for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: that the social connectedness of older adults predicts their vulnerability to Alzheimer's and general cognitive decline.