IDEA Lab | Neurology Research

Charles DeCarli, M.D., co-directs of the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s research center. He also directs the Imaging of Dementia and Aging (IDeA) laboratory. His research focuses on using advanced structural and functional brain imaging to study normal aging, mild cognitive impairment and dementia, and the role of genetics, diversity, cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease on these processes. He received the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine—Imaging of the Aging Brain in recognition of his work. DeCarli also serves as principal investigator of the Diverse Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (Diverse VCID) study, which aims to recruit 2250 non-Hispanic white, Hispanic/Latino and Black African Americans to examine the impact of vascular brain injury on cognition from 17 sites across the United States. He is co-PI of the Study of Latinos Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA), a study of more than 6,000 Hispanic/Latinos with diverse heritage from four sites across the United States. DeCarli is involved in a number of other studies.