Cognitive Aging News

Over 100 McKnight Brain Institute faculty members, trainees, students and staff attended annual lecture honoring the MBI's founding director.

Dr. Jeffrey Jones' research aims to illuminate age-related metabolic changes in neurons in normal cognitive aging and dementia that result in changes in DNA, to find new treatments.

The Leighton E. Cluff Award for Aging Research is presented annually to support studies on aging, with an emphasis on social issues in later life.

Drs. Tracy Centanni and Eric Porges discuss the role of the vagus nerve and the efficacy of stimulation treatments.

This year’s speaker was Ulman Lindenberger, Ph.D., director of the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

In a Washington Post article, Dr. Jennifer Applebaum discusses her study showing slower decline in verbal memory among older adults who owned a pet.

MBI researchers Drs. Eric Porges, Natalie Ebner, and Aprinda I. Queen join CAM leadership team.

Easy-to-administer lab test offers strong indicator of who is most susceptible, new study shows.

Dr. Shellie-Anne Levy is a clinical neuropsychologist studying cognitive changes in older adults with mild cognitive impairment & diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

MBRF’s 15th Inter-Institutional Meeting brings together leading scientists working to optimize memory, reasoning and thinking in advancing age.