EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON BRAIN AGING IN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES

尼-鸿海-台项目是一系列协调的流行病学 关于痴呆症的研究，包括在成人健康研究中的一项调查 年辐射效应研究基金会(REFR)队列 广岛。该项目由亚太办事处组织， 继续作为西雅图合作科学家的共同努力， 川崎市、台北、广岛和火奴鲁鲁。一个中心目标是 制定和使用足够相似的方法，以便比较费率 而痴呆症在不同地点的模式也是可能的。 与广岛研究的协调是通过建立 与能源部的跨部门协议，通过 向退休基金提供了哪些资金以进行与我们的 关于痴呆症的合作研究。这些资金中有很大一部分是 用于支持日本科学家参加第六届 日美跨国痴呆症研究方法研讨会。 该项目进展顺利，平行研究很可能 使用可比较的方法将在两个地点进行 在美国，在日本有一到两个网站，在台湾至少有两个网站。

The Ni-Hon-Sea-Tai project is a coordinated series of epidemiologic studies on dementia that include a survey in the Adult Health Study Cohort of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (REFR) in Hiroshima. The project was organized by the Asia-Pacific Office and is continued as a shared effort by cooperating scientists in Seattle, Kawasaki City, Taipei, Hiroshima, and Honolulu. A central goal is to develop and use methods sufficiently alike so that comparisons of rates and patterns of dementing illnesses across sites would be possible. Coordination with the Hiroshima study was facilitated by establishment of an interagency agreement with the Department of Energy, through which funds were made available to the RERF for work related to our collaborative studies on dementia. A large part of these funds were used to support the participation of Japanese scientists in the Sixth Japan-U.S. Workshop on Methods for Cross-National Dementia Research. The project is progressing well and it is likely that parallel studies using comparable methodologies will be conducted at two sites in the U.S., one or two sites in Japan, and at least two sites in Taiwan.