Neurology professor, WashU Medicine; leads long-running dementia study
Morris has been principal investigator of WashU Medicine's Healthy Aging and Senile Dementia program since 1998. He refined the Clinical Dementia Rating, a scale used to judge whether dementia is present and how severe it is, and leads the Adult Children Study of middle-aged people with a parent who had Alzheimer's.
WHAT TO WATCHWhether the mobile clinic reaches its goal of 300 new participants and what the study finds about Alzheimer's markers across racial groups.
The US National Institutes of Health renewed a St. Louis Alzheimer's study for five more years. A van-based clinic will try to enroll 300 people the research has often missed.
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