Dr. Michal Schnaider Beeri Publishes New Study in Alzheimer’s & Dementia on Emotional and Behavioral Impacts of Learning Alzheimer’s Risk

Dr. Michal Schnaider Beeri, Director of the Herbert and Jacqueline Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center at the BHI, has published a new paper in Alzheimer’s & Dementia titled “Emotional response to amyloid beta status disclosure among research participants at high dementia risk.” The study shows that learning about one’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease may not lead to emotional distress, but motivation to maintain healthy lifestyle changes tends to fade over time, even in people at high risk. Read more on Rutgers Today.