Observational research studies help us improve the understanding and diagnosis of brain disorders. Your participation helps us reach these goals. If one of our studies looks interesting to you, please talk with your doctor or contact the study team to see if it is appropriate for you.
For general research inquiries, please call:
415.476.3722
Let the MAC Research Teams Help You Find the Right Studies for You
- If you do not have a diagnosis and want to be a healthy volunteer, please contact the Healthy Aging Team through the Healthy Aging study.
- If you have memory and cognitive complaints or a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, please contact the AD research team through the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
- If you have a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (including corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy) or a related disease, please contact the FTD research team through the Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions study.
- If you have a rapidly progressive dementia (including the prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), please email cjdstudies@memory.ucsf.edu or call 415.476.2901.
- For information about the UCSF Memory and Aging Center Clinical Trials Program, please email clinicaltrials@memory.ucsf.edu or call 415.476.0700, 415.476.8333 or 415.476.0671.
Research Studies Listed by Diagnosis & Language
Alzheimer’s Disease
- ADRC: New Approaches to Dementia Heterogeneity
- Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)
- Creation of Stem Cells from Patients with FTD
- Early Onset and Atypical Alzheimer’s Disease
- Eye Movements in Dementia
- Financial, Legal & Social Decision-Making Post Early Age-of-Onset Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
- IDEAS: Imaging Dementia – Evidence for Amyloid Scanning
- Legal, Ethical & Social Analysis of Preclinical Biomarker Tests in Alzheimer’s Disease
- Measuring Social Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease
Frontotemporal Spectrum Disorders
- 4 Repeat Tauopathy Neuroimaging Initiative – Cycle 2 (4RTNI-2)
- Advancing Research and Treatment for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ARTFL)
- Creation of Stem Cells from Patients with FTD
- Eye Movements in Dementia
- Familial Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (FamPSP)
- fMRI of Autonomic Physiology in FTD and AD
- Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions
- Longitudinal Evaluation of Familial Frontotemporal Dementia Subjects (LEFFTDS)
- Measuring Social Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Sleep and Cognition in Older Adults
Healthy Aging
- 4 Repeat Tauopathy Neuroimaging Initiative – Cycle 2 (4RTNI-2)
- ADRC: New Approaches to Dementia Heterogeneity
- Advancing Research and Treatment for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ARTFL)
- Chronic Inflammation in Healthy Aging and MCI
- Eye Movements in Dementia
- Healthy Aging
- Normal Aging and Cognitive Decline
- PET Imaging in Aging Population
- Sleep and Cognition in Older Adults