Jerri Edwards, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, is continuing work on a grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging totaling $24 million over the course of 5 years for her study, ACTIVE Mind: An adaptive clinical trial of cognitive training to improve function and delay dementia.

The ACTIVE Mind study examines whether computerized brain training can reduce the risk of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia prevention research takes on increased urgency as no proven treatments exist to cure Alzheimer’s disease.

The ACTIVE Mind study builds on research showing that certain computerized brain training may reduce the risk of dementia by 29 to 48 percent across 10 years. In the study, researchers seek to determine which types of computerized brain training have the best chance to reduce dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease.

*Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AG075014. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.