This research seeks to understand and identify predictive functional relationships in neurodegenerative diseases, specifically traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). TBI is a leading cause of death in persons under the age of 45, and AD is the leading cause of dementia and a leading cause of death in persons over the age of 65. Despite the apparent difference in relevant populations, previous research has shown links between the two as well as between each disease and age.
Tuerk House (TH) is a drug addiction treatment facility serving the Baltimore, MD area. We work in collaboration with TH, Professor Edward Bernat, University of Maryland, and Professor Fadia Shaya University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Pharmacy to analyze the electronic medical record data from TH.
We are currently in the process of creating a rich and multifaceted data set centered on the TH patient population by engineering the data available in the TH EMR.