The University of South Florida (USF) has opened the Center for Memory C.A.R.E. (Clinical Assessment, Research and Education), on the second floor of the six-story USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, to support patients and their caregivers.

The automated measurement of temporoparietal brain region volumes is a highly accurate predictor of memory loss in healthy elderly persons, indicating that these underlying characteristics could help clinicians identify likely cases of pre-clinical Alzheimer’s and enable them eventually to prevent the disease’s progression, according to an article published in the June issue of Radiology.