South Texas Alzheimer’s Disease Center Population Neuroscience

摘要-人口神经科学核心 南德克萨斯阿尔茨海默病中心（STAC）的人口神经科学核心（PNC）旨在推进我们的研究。 了解导致阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆症的生命过程因素， 特别是在未充分研究的墨西哥裔西班牙裔美国人中，他们面临着增加的风险， 疾病为了实现这一目标，我们的团队将进行前沿的流行病学和神经科学研究 监测痴呆症健康差异的患病率和发病率趋势，确定终生风险， 有助于痴呆症的保护因素，确定用于风险预测的合适且具有成本效益的生物标志物， 并为墨西哥裔美国人的认知评估开发文化和语言上合适的工具 来自德克萨斯州南部PNC拥有来自现有纵向人口队列的卓越资源， 新的研究集中在墨西哥裔美国人与深表型，并建立了国家和国际 合作。PNC的目标是进一步缩小墨西哥裔美国人代表权的差距， 流行病学研究。这将通过建立刚果国家警察共享资源来实现， UDS和其他痴呆症研究标准的数据将与其他ADRC和科学家共享。 社区这种设置允许PNC为临床和心理健康提供认知健康控制。 神经病理核心以及其他ADRC。最后，我们将培养医学博士、博士和其他专业人员， 人口神经科学，发展定量和定性研究方法的技能，利用当地 国家层面的数据。PNC将与所有STAC核心密切合作制定这些目标。 总之，PNC的战略定位是成为墨西哥宝贵数据的国家资源， 生活在德克萨斯州南部的美国拉美裔人，是以老年痴呆症为中心的合作研究的资产， 痴呆症相关研究我们与其他STAC核心完全集成，提供知识，数据， 服务，工具和培训，以调查整个中心，以及更广泛的ADRC和科学 社区

ABSTRACT – Population Neuroscience Core The Population Neuroscience Core (PNC) of the South Texas Alzheimer’s Center (STAC) aims to advance our understanding of the life course factors contributing to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias, particularly in the understudied population of Mexican American Hispanic, who face an increased risk of the disease. To achieve this goal, our team will conduct cutting-edge epidemiological and neuroscience research to monitor the prevalence and incidence trends of health disparities in dementia, identify life-course risk and protective factors contributing to dementia, identify suitable and cost-effective biomarkers for risk prediction, and the develop culturally and linguistically appropriate tools for cognitive assessment in Mexican Americans from South Texas. The PNC has exceptional resources from existing longitudinal population-based cohorts, new studies focusing on Mexican Americans with deep phenotyping, and established national and international collaborations. The PNC aims to additionally close the gap of representation of Mexican Americans in epidemiological research. This will be achieved by the creation of a PNC sharing resource, where harmonized data to UDS and other standards in dementia research will be shared with other ADRCs and the scientific community. This setting allows the PNC to provide cognitively healthy controls for the Clinical and Neuropathological Cores as well as other ADRCs. Finally, we will train MDs, PhDs, and other professionals in population neuroscience, to develop skills in quantitative and qualitative research methods by leveraging local and national level data. The PNC will develop these aims in close collaboration with all STAC Cores. In summary, the PNC strategically positioned to be a national resource of valuable data from Mexican American Hispanics living in South Texas, and an asset to collaborative research centered on Alzheimer’s and related dementias research. We are fully integrated with the other STAC Cores to provide knowledge, data, services, tools, and training to investigators across the Center, as well as the broader ADRC and scientific community.