Alzheimer's Association's funding enables expansion of aging study in longest running birth cohort
27 days ago - By News Medical
The Alzheimer's Association and University College London are partnering to study brain aging and dementia in 500 individuals whose health and health-related behaviors have been documented since birth.
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