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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Aaron Wilber, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been awarded a $2.2-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study sleep-related brain function in Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive
disorder that affects memory and behavior in millions of Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Wilber, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, will receive the grant, awarded through the NIH’s National Institute on Aging, over the course of the next five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">“One reason Alzheimer’s treatments have failed may be because it’s difficult to catch the disease before the brain has become too dysfunctional to recover,” Wilber said. “This grant is focused on identifying early changes in
the brain, and we hope that looking earlier in the disease progression will yield new insight into approaches for detecting and treating Alzheimer’s disease. We are also looking at later timepoints since more is known about later brain changes in Alzheimer’s
disease.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Wilber’s team — including research scientist Shawn Moseley and graduate students Sarah Danielle Benthem and Alina Stimmell, and co-senior investigator Benjamin Clark from the University of New Mexico — will assess the relationship
between spatial learning and memory and the brain’s dynamics during sleep. Using mouse models, they will examine these dynamics within and across the hippocampus and parietal cortex, brain regions involved in spatial navigation learning and memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Read more about his project here: <a href="https://isl.fsu.edu/article/isl-faculty-affiliate-aaron-wilber-awarded-22m-nih-grant-study-impact-alzheimers-disease">
https://isl.fsu.edu/article/isl-faculty-affiliate-aaron-wilber-awarded-22m-nih-grant-study-impact-alzheimers-disease</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Bill Edmonds, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Institute for Successful Longevity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#782F40">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">850-933-7960<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:btedmond@fsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">btedmond@fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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