Sister Deb Sciano and Sister Charlene Zeisset (left) and Sister Charmaine Krohe and Sister Regina Palacios (right) recently visited the labs at the Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, the current home of the Nun Study. A National Institute on Aging study of Alzheimer’s and related dementias, the Nun Study began in 1990 with 678 School Sisters of Notre Dame. At the time of their enrollment, sisters agreed to periodic cognitive and physical assessments throughout the rest of their lives as well as brain donation at death. Although all the sisters involved with the study are now deceased, the sisters involved continue to impact Alzheimer’s research through the gift of their brain donations. In addition to the ongoing Nun Study, SSND are also involved in The RUSH University Religious Orders Study. This study has enrolled currently living sisters, many of whom were too young to participate in the Nun Study when it began collecting data in the 1990s.
To learn more about SSND’s participation in the Nun Study, visit https://ssnd.org/ministries/nun_study/.
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