BU Now » genetic test http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Finding Alzheimer’s risk poses little distress http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/16/finding-alzheimers-risk-poses-little-distress/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/16/finding-alzheimers-risk-poses-little-distress/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:56:34 +0000 Ron Rosenberg http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=2311 If you learned from a genetic test that your risk for Alzheimer’s disease increased, how would you feel?  A  study of 162 healthy adult children of patients with Alzheimer’s found that people who inherited a key gene showed no more test-related stress, depression, or anxiety than those who did not, according to Dr. Robert Green, lead author of the School of Medicine study,  that examined the psychological reprecussions.

Contact Dr.  Robert Green, (617) 638-5426,  rcgreen@bu.edu

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