To participate, volunteers must be in good overall health and bring a relative or close friend to the initial visit and each subsequent yearly clinical assessment to serve as a co-participant. Volunteers will be asked to return once or twice in the two months following the first assessment for additional testing. The friend or relative may not need to come to these follow-up visits. After the initial meetings, participants return with their co-participants for a yearly assessment and additional testing. They also might be eligible to participate in other ongoing memory research at the School of Medicine, including trials for potential treatments of memory disorders.
All tests relating to the study are free.
Individuals over 85 years of age with or without memory loss also are invited to participate. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient-care institutions in the nation. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC Health System.