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Connecting Researchers with NC Residents Dedicated to Brain Health

As the first of its kind in North Carolina, the NC Registry for Brain Health provides a unique opportunity for researchers to connect with a diverse group of people across the state who are eager to get involved in studies that will expand the knowledge of how to improve brain health. The people participating in the Registry represent a broad range of ages (18+), races, ethnicities, and regions of North Carolina.

By bringing potential participants and researchers together, the Registry helps improve study recruitment while educating people about conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. The Registry is also a source of useful information on topics about improving brain health.

Researchers may apply to use the Registry to assist with study recruitment. This increases community awareness of ongoing funded research for brain health and provides opportunities for people to get involved in these efforts.

How to access the registry

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Because the Registry is comprised of “research-ready” participants, we are able to mobilize interested people quickly, which boosts study recruitment and helps sites to meet enrollment milestones on time.

Research Ready Participants

Benefits of Accessing the Registry

One of the biggest obstacles to conducting a successful clinical study is finding the right participants. Making sure the results found in a clinical investigation can be generalized to the broad population is also difficult. The NC Registry for Brain Health meets both of these challenges by connecting researchers to a diverse range of people who are motivated to increase awareness of brain health and advance treatment options.

Once your study is approved to access the Registry, we will notify people who fit your study’s eligibility requirements and provide them with information on how to get involved.

How to Access the Registry for Recruitment

Any researcher based at one of our institutional research partner sites is eligible to apply to use the Registry for an IRB approved study. If your study is approved to access the Registry for recruitment, you will join other researchers at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University and other institutional research partners in our state in accelerating recruitment for their studies.

To apply, complete a research request form for your study.

Access the Registry.

What We Do

The NC Consortium for Brain Health in Aging created the NC Registry by bringing together local brain health experts from five partnering academic universities to encourage people from across North Carolina to get involved with brain health research. Our goal is to make information accessible to all people. We strive to reach underserved and under-represented communities who are in need of services and often overlooked in Alzheimer’s disease treatment studies. We do this by working together to provide the community:

Education about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Access to information about clinical trials and other enrolling research across multiple sites in North Carolina
Current information about promoting brain health and minimizing the impact of dementia

Research Partner Organizations

Duke University
East Carolina University
North Carolina A&T State University
Wake Forest School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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