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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah State University researcher will be using a $1 million grant to study whether Alzheimer's disease is linked to stress and depression.
Maria Norton, associate professor in the Department of Family, Consumer and Human Development, will use the National Institutes of Health grant money to complete a three-year study.
Studies of animals and humans show stress harms a memory storing region of the brain that is damaged by the disease.
Norton says the illness is an urgent public health priority that will affect more than 6 million Americans by 2025. She says the ultimate goal of the study is to decrease the proportion of people who have the disease.
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Information from: The Herald Journal
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