The Wien Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders, since its inception in 1986, has provided clinical care in the form of diagnosis, comprehensive neurological, psychiatric, social service and outreach services to patients and their caregivers in South Florida, the Caribbean and Central and Central America.
The center has been very actively engaged in clinical, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, epidemiological and genetic research, as well as in clinical trials, including the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and many studies sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Studies group as well as pharmaceutical and other healthcare companies. The center is also the host of the State of Florida Brain Bank, including a registry of autopsy donors for those afflicted with memory disorders and the only facility to obtain neuropathological diagnosis for such patients in all of South Florida.