New Jersey's Academic Alzheimer's Diagnostic and Treatment Center - Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research

New Jersey’s Academic Alzheimer’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center @ RWJBarnabas Health

We are staffed by physician scientists who are not only familiar with the latest diagnostic tools but also helped advance them towards FDA clearance.

Leaders in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and treatment at Rutgers all see patients in our clinic consisting of 2 cognitive neurologists, 2 geriatricians, 3 neuropsychologists, and nurse practitioners. Dr. William Hu is additionally licensed to provide Telemedicine Services for our patients who winter in Florida.

**We have no affiliation with the Brain Health Institute nor the Kreiger-Klein Center.**

Donating to us via “Dr. William Hu Dementia Research” is the only way to directly support care and research in NJ’s Academic Alzheimer’s Disease Clinic.

Your donations will support our work in providing accurate diagnosis, personalizing the new Alzheimer’s disease treatments, developing better models of “brain in a petri dish”, and collaborating with leading Alzheimer’s scientists at NYU, Stanford, Emory, Harvard, Northwestern, and University of Pennsylvania.

We were the first in the country to determine that two key cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer’s disease – t-Tau and p-Tau₁₈₁ – are lower in Black/African Americans than non-Hispanic White Americans.

We were also the first to report the same phenomenon in the blood – blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease likely do not work as well in Black/African Americans as in non-Hispanic White Americans.

We are helping arrange Leqembi® and Kisunla® infusions for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. Please see our Treatment page for details.

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The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Clinic at Rutgers is New Jersey’s Academic Alzheimer’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center. It is home to dementia specialists including cognitive neurologists, neuropsychologists, and geriatricians who are experienced in modern approaches to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Since 2021, we have also been evaluating people with brain fog following COVID-19 infection (long COVID).

We work with clinical and basic scientists on research to better and more accurately diagnose people with memory and thinking concerns, prevent cognitive decline in aging, and develop newer treatments for common and rare brain disorders. See our research page for currently enrolling studies.

Because the care of People Living with Dementia is important and extends beyond the walls of a medical clinic, we are also working with community partners to promote Dementia Friendly practices and communities.

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New Jersey’s Academic Alzheimer’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center @ RWJBarnabas Health

We are staffed by physician scientists who are not only familiar with the latest diagnostic tools but also helped advance them towards FDA clearance.

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We partner with the NIH-funded Resource Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans (RCASIA) to bring the latest research tools into our clinic to detect memory and thinking changes among older Chinese Americans and Asian Indian Americans.

We are looking for partners to expand this work into older Korean and Japanese Americans.

**We have no affiliation with the Brain Health Institute nor the Kreiger-Klein Center.**

Donating to us via “Dr. William Hu Dementia Research” is the only way to directly support care and research in NJ’s Academic Alzheimer’s Disease Clinic.

We were the first in the country to determine that two key cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer’s disease – t-Tau and p-Tau₁₈₁ – are lower in Black/African Americans than non-Hispanic White Americans.

We were also the first to report the same phenomenon in the blood – blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease likely do not work as well in Black/African Americans as in non-Hispanic White Americans.

Join study on Post-COVID Brain Fog

Join Chinese Older Adult STudy

Rutgers Receives $4.2 Million to Develop Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans

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New Jersey’s Academic Alzheimer’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center @ RWJBarnabas Health

We are staffed by physician scientists who are not only familiar with the latest diagnostic tools but also helped advance them towards FDA clearance.

Watch Today!

Lumbar Puncture Information Video

We partner with the NIH-funded Resource Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans (RCASIA) to bring the latest research tools into our clinic to detect memory and thinking changes among older Chinese Americans and Asian Indian Americans.

We are looking for partners to expand this work into older Korean and Japanese Americans.

We have no affiliation with the Brain Health Institute nor the Kreiger-Klein Center.

Donating to us via “Dr. William Hu Dementia Research” is the only way to directly support care and research in NJ’s Academic Alzheimer’s Disease Clinic.

We were the first in the country to determine that two key cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer’s disease – t-Tau and p-Tau181 – are lower in Black/African Americans than non-Hispanic White Americans.

We were also the first to report the same phenomenon in the blood – blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease likely do not work as well in Black/African Americans as in non-Hispanic White Americans.

Join study on Post-COVID Brain Fog

Join Chinese Older Adult STudy

Rutgers Receives $4.2 Million to Develop Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans

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**We have no affiliation with the Brain Health Institute nor the Kreiger-Klein Center.**

We were the first in the country to determine that two key cerebrospinal fluid markers of Alzheimer’s disease – t-Tau and p-Tau₁₈₁ – are lower in Black/African Americans than non-Hispanic White Americans.