{"id":207240,"date":"2026-03-26T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207240\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:34:38","slug":"usf-dementia-trial-receives-additional-federal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207240\/","title":{"rendered":"USF dementia trial receives additional federal funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 26, 2026 &#8211; The Preventing Alzheimer\u2019s with Cognitive Training (PACT) study, led by University of South Florida researchers, has received an additional $2.8 million from the National Institutes of Health. According to a prepared statement, this will help &#8220;continue researching whether computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.&#8221; The clinical trial, which began in 2020, has received more than $50 million in federal grant funding. Results are expected to be published in the fall of 2028.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 26, 2026 &#8211; The Preventing Alzheimer\u2019s with Cognitive Training (PACT) study, led by University of South Florida&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-207240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}