Current Research Projects - Blog Style

Agency: NIH/NICHD
Agency Award Number: 1F31HD062163-01

This study will examine the effects of English fluency on Spanish language neuropsychological test performance, hypothesizing relationships derived from existing cognitive science models.

Agency: NIH/Tufts University
Agency Award Number: 5R01NS036524-10

To examine the relationship of metabolic patterns as measured by MRS in ADC subjects to levels of HIV RNA, immune activation, including chemokines, the CSF and peripheral compartments in response to potent antiretroviral therapy; and correlate changes in regional metabolites and surrogate markers of disease to neurocognitive performance.

Agency: NIH/NIMH
Agency Award Number: 5R01MH073419-06

To extend the findings from the initial grant period by focusing on older adults with HIV, expanding the study design to examine the incidence of ProM impairment and its risk factors, broaden our conceptual model to include habitual ProM, and examine an important new functional outcome, health-related quality of life.

Agency: NIH/NIDA
Agency Award Number: 1R03DA027513-01

To examine the relationship between CYP2D6 and FMO3 genotypes and neuropathologic changes observed in brain tissue from METH dependent subjects who died with AIDS.