UChicago Medicine selected as Chicago’s only official NIH network site researching stroke and dementia

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a national network in February to learn more about the causes of post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia. The group is named DISCOVERY Network, or the Determinants of Incident Stroke Cognitive Outcomes and Vascular Effects on Recovery Network. Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, MS, hope to better understand the risk factors that lead to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID), early stroke recovery and approaches to prevention.

Through this large study, the researchers will attempt to determine which specific stroke events result in dementia and look at a variety of other clinical causes contributing to this condition.

The DISCOVERY network is jointly supported by the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute on Aging.