Summary: Clinical Trials have long been a part of the history of medical research. While testing new drugs or devices, investigators enlist patients with fixed characteristics, dispense treatments and assemble data for a set period of time. The results can be crucial for the advancement of medical knowledge. Dr. Reisa Sperling knows that well. She's the Director of Clinical Research in the Memory Disorders Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Director of the Neuroimaging program at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In this podcast, she talks about her own research and the importance of clinical trials and the patients who so generously participate in them.
