In the first study of its kind, neuroscience researchers at Rutgers University–Newark's Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) have found that an important genetic variation associated with Alzheimer's disease regulates the ability of physical fitness to help ward off the condition in African Americans, who are twice as likely to suffer from the disease as white Americans. The results of this Externalnew study, funded by a five-year grant to Professor Mark A. Gluck from the National Institute of Health's National Institute on Aging (NIA), was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
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