Executive director, Banner Alzheimer's Institute, The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease may no longer signal a hopeless, heartbreaking journey into darkness for patients and their families, marked by a relentless loss of memory, identity, function and, ultimately, life. Today, in part because of key research and unprecedented collaboration done in Arizona, there is reason for hope that significant progress can be made against the devastation that is Alzheimer's… Our emergence is thanks, in large part, to the collaboration within the Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium…that includes about 150 researchers and colleagues from seven principal institutions in our state: …Mayo Clinic Arizona…

Arizona Republic by Eric Reiman

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