Clinical Trial information is available here as well. The You Tube site is set up to accept contributions, share stories, and more. Using video media is a smart and intelligent way today to reach audiences quickly. By combining efforts with Facebook, there’s even more information available in a simplified format, along with a link to contribute. Private contributions today are making up a tremendous amount of the dollars being used for research. This was partly generated out of the “fight for Mike”, a silicon valley executive and former Apple employee who was diagnosed with dementia and the foundation started has raised more than 7 million for research at UCSF. Neurodegenerative disease research faces many challenges and is still somewhat in it’s infancy compared to other non-neuro research projects. BD
YouTube, the online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos, has teamed up with scientists at The University of California, San Francisco to tap the video sharing platform to drive medical research.
To support the effort, the UCSF team is also reaching out with two other forms of online communication. They've created an electronic badge, or "widget," containing links to the YouTube channel and the UCSF Memory and Aging Center web site that will allow people to spread the word about
the initiative via email and websites, including disease-education associations. They have also created a Facebook group, "Defeat Dementia."The "Fight for Mike" allocated $200,000 for UCSF to hire a company to create the CJD site on the Memory and Aging Center website. It will serve as a template for the creation of disease-specific site on each form of dementia in the coming years.
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