All Cores

Administrative Core
The Administrative Core provides the strategic direction, leadership, oversight, working relationships and support needed to fulfill the Consortium?s organizational, scientific, educational and minority outreach goals.
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Clinical Core
The Clinical Core includes six geographically distributed clinical sites for the clinical, neuropsychological and genetic assessment, diagnosis, enrollment, annual follow-up and clinical study of about 500 patients with Alzheimer?s disease and other dementias, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy elderly control participants, most but not all of whom are enrolled in the Consortium?s Brain Donation Program.
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Data Management and Statistics Core
The Data Management and Statistics Core ensures the standardized acquisition, accuracy, and centralized storage of data acquired in the Consortium?s Clinical and Neuropathology Cores.
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Education And Information Core
The Education and Information Core provides educational, informational, and training opportunities for researchers, professional and family caregivers, the general public and Arizona?s underserved Latino and American Indian Communities.
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Neuropathology Core
The Neuropathology Core provides precise autopsy diagnoses and extraordinarily high quality brain tissue (i.e., a median post-mortem interval of less than 3 hours), cerebrospinal fluid and other biological samples from neuropathologically well characterized brain donors for the neurobiological study of AD, related disorders and normal brain aging-resources that are used by researchers throughout Arizona and around the world.

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