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CNI Accessible Lecture – The Long Road to Alzheimer’s: Making the Road Visible and Getting on the Road to Health Instead
Neuroscientists from all over the United States who care about community and democratizing neuroscience deliver accessible lectures on their cutting-edge work. These neuroscientists are generally from underrepresented groups and have their own track record of bringing neuroscience to the people.
Dr. Elizabeth Riley is a postdoc in neuroscience in the Department of Psychology in the College of Human Ecology. She received a Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine, and her research at Cornell focuses on the norepinephrine system and its relation to Alzheimer’s disease.
Her talk will focus on the many choices, some of which we unwittingly make on our life journey, that contribute to our cognitive health. During her talk, she’ll make those choices in youth, middle age, and as elders visible to us and share some of her empirical work on the function of the locus coeruleus function.
Parents should join to think about their health in middle age and help prepare their kids for excellent cognitive health in the future. Educators should join to learn to better communicate to their students the importance of sleep, exercise, and staying away from toxins. Researchers and students should join for a Q&A with the expert.
