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Subseries contains materials pertaining to Gerda G. Fillenbaum's involvement with the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). CERAD was established in 1986 by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to standardize procedures for evaluating and diagnosing patients with Alzheimer's disease. Materials in this subseries also document the development and use of the standardized instruments developed by CERAD, including their translation into Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Types of materials include correspondence, photographs, reports, questionnaires, receipts, order forms, VHS tapes, floppy disks, notes, DVDs, manuals, raw data files, data entry packets, speeches, reprints, brochures, flyers, newsletters, and publications. Materials date from 1986 to 2017.

Subseries contains materials pertaining to Gerda G. Fillenbaum's involvement with the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). CERAD was established in 1986 by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to standardize procedures for evaluating and diagnosing patients with Alzheimer's disease. Types of materials include correspondence, reports, questionnaires, receipts, order forms, newsletters, receipts, budget materials, and grant proposals. Materials date from 1986 to 2012.

Includes materials pertaining to the Clinical Research Center for the Study of Depression in Later Life (CRC), which was jointly administered by the Department of Psychiatry and the Center for the Study of Aging. The first cycle of funding began in 1984. In addition to the first round of funding (10/1/84-6/30/90), two competing renewals (7/1/90-6/30/94 and 7/1/94-6/30/99) were funded for a total of 16 years of funding by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). As is true of most center grants, the CRC included a major or core project and a number of sub-studies. Linda K. George, PhD was affiliated with the core project, which consisted of recruiting middle aged and older (age 45 and older) in patients who were hospitalized at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD). During their hospitalizations, patients were administered a "core" interview titled the Duke Depression Evaluation Schedule (DDES). The primary contents of the DDES were a diagnostic interview to validate the diagnosis of MDD and a comprehensive social survey. A close family member or caregiver of the patient also was interviewed at baseline. Additional data were extracted from the patient's chart and medical records, including information about use of psychotropic medications and other treatments targeted at MDD (e.g., ECT). Study participants also were asked to donate a blood sample to monitor serum levels of antidepressant medications. After the baseline assessment, study participants were re-interviewed at 6 month intervals by telephone with a shortened version of the DDES. The primary purpose of the follow-up interviews was to assess the study participant's depressive symptoms because a major goal of the CRC was to identify patterns of recovery, relapse, and chronicity of MDD. Dr. Dan Blazer and Dr. Bernard J. Carroll were principal investigators of the three CRC grant proposals. Materials date from 1984 to 1994.