Carol Barnes - Memory and the Aging Brain

April 27, 2019 - Changes in memory occur over the course of typical aging. More severe memory impairment is characteristic of age-associated neurodegenerative disease. Over the past half-century, many myths about the aging brain have been shattered using systems neuroscience approaches, and rodent and nonhuman primate aging models, to define changes in brain and cognition that are normative versus pathological. Barnes will discuss how these data have driven a conceptual shift away from the idea of passive brain deterioration with time, to the view that the brain is capable of remarkable adaptation across the lifespan. Barnes represents Class II.