马里兰大学获NIH 316万美元资助建 EdDem 网络：研究童年经历与痴呆风险
马里兰大学11月13日宣布，该校获得美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）下属国家老龄研究所316万美元资助，建立「教育、早年生活与痴呆」（EdDem）研究网络，研究童年与青少年时期的经历如何影响晚年的痴呆风险。
这个网络由马里兰大学公共卫生学院教授 Katrina Walsemann 领衔，将汇集多所院校的研究者，整合教育水平、童年家庭环境、早年健康等长期追踪数据，分析这些早年因素与认知衰退、阿尔茨海默病等痴呆症之间的关系，并比较不同人群之间的差异。
研究团队表示，痴呆风险的形成贯穿一生，中年以后才干预往往为时已晚；把研究起点提前到童年与教育阶段，有助于找到更早的预防窗口。这笔资助将用于网络的数据整合、研究协作与青年学者培养。
（来源：马里兰大学）
University of Maryland Wins $3.16 Million NIH Award for EdDem Network on Childhood and Dementia Risk
The University of Maryland announced on November 13 that it has received $3.16 million from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to build the Education, Early Life and Dementia (EdDem) research network, which studies how experiences in childhood and adolescence shape dementia risk in later life.
Led by Katrina Walsemann, a professor in the university's School of Public Health, the network will bring together researchers from multiple institutions and combine long-running data on education, childhood family environment and early-life health to analyze their links to cognitive decline and dementias such as Alzheimer's disease, including differences across population groups.
The team says dementia risk builds across the life course, and intervening only after midlife is often too late; moving the research starting point back to childhood and schooling can reveal earlier windows for prevention. The award will fund data integration, research collaboration and training of early-career scholars.
(Source: University of Maryland)
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