The Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium (TARCC) is a collaboration between ten of the state’s leading medical research institutions, working to improve early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer's Facts
1 in 9 people age 65+ has Alzheimer's disease.
About 490,000 Texans are projected to have Alzheimer's by 2025.
1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia. Every 66 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s.
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TARCC 2022 Scientific Symposium
Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease Science, Research, and Care
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January 27, 2022
TARCC Research Updates
TARCC investigators have been involved in a number of new, important research studies. Recently published research is wide ranging, spanning the gamut from clinical trials to new cognitive diagnostics; blood-based biomarkers in Mexican-Americans; identification of additional risk genes; and validation of biomarker algorithms in AD patients and AD animal models.
View all TARCC researcher publications here.
View all TARCC Investigator Grant Awards here.
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Reminder TARCC has opened its FY2021 Request for Applications (RFA). Click the link for more details.
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Reminder! 2021 Request for Application- TARCC Grants
TARCC RFA 2021 2021 Request for Applications (RFA) 2021 TARCC Grants Program RFA TARCC is now pleased to announce its FY2021 Request for Applications (RFA) as part of a research program to support an
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Developed with the TARCC cohort, the Southwestern Assessment of Processing Speed (SWAPS) is a brief, free, and easily administered tool to be used in clinical and research settings for the detection of cognitive impairment and efficient assessment of processing speed.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2021.1970229
(2021). Southwestern Assessment of Processing Speed (SWAPS): A new brief test with demographically-corrected norms in an ethnically and educationally diverse population. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. Ahead of Print.
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Please join us at the
TARCC Scientific Symposium: Advances in Alzheimer's Disease Science, Research, and Care
January 27, 2022
UT Austin Etter-Harbin Alumni Center// 2110 San Jacinto Blvd// Austin, TX
In-person with virtual options
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