Overview
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Guidelines for reducing dementia risk
Mayo Clinic contributed to the recently released World Health Organization publication that provides evidence-based guidance for a public health response to dementia. Read the report (PDF).
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Coordinating Center: Lewy body dementia
The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is the Coordinating Center for the Lewy Body Dementia Association Research Centers of Excellence network.
Where Alzheimer's and dementia care and research meet
The Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center promotes and conducts research and education about healthy brain aging, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia and other dementia conditions. Ultimately, center researchers aim to prevent, delay and possibly cure Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. In addition to doing research, our staff provides care and support for people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, their families, and their caregivers.
We are one unified research center with two locations: One in Rochester, Minnesota, and the other in Jacksonville, Florida. Researchers from different specialties work together to conduct basic science research and clinical research within and across both locations.
A pioneer in aging research
In collaboration with Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center studies the entire spectrum of aging. This includes normal aging, mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
Our research has led to new biomarker detection and advanced neuroimaging tests. These discoveries pave the way for new therapies and treatments of early Alzheimer's disease.
Lewy body dementia Research Center of Excellence
The Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center is a Lewy Body Dementia Association Research Center of Excellence. Research Centers of Excellence provide advanced Lewy body dementia care, community outreach and support. The Rochester campus is the coordinating center of the program, comprising the nation's leading Lewy body dementia research institutions.
Learn more about Research Centers of Excellence on the Lewy Body Dementia Association website.
Director
The director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center is Ronald C. Petersen, M.D., Ph.D.
Funding
The Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center is one of 33 Alzheimer's disease centers in the U.S. funded by the National Institute on Aging. Although each center has a unique focus, they share a common goal to enhance research by sharing ideas, innovative strategies and research results.