City of Science: Healthy Brain Aging

Dementia affects nearly all families, and the amount of information about it online and in the media can be overwhelming. Join us for an evening to learn about Alzheimer’s and other conditions, and how to maintain a healthy brain as you age. Find out about steps younger people can take to help prevent dementia, how to tell the difference between dementia and normal decline, what you can do to slow the rate of progression, and ways to maximize quality of life if there is a diagnosis. Helping to sort fact from fiction, our panel of experts features Desiree Byrd, professor of psychology at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center; Nancy Foldi, professor emerita of psychology and neuroscience at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and adjunct professor in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical Center; and Jennifer J. Manly, professor of neuropsychology in neurology at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University. Moderated by E. Susan Duncan, associate professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Presented with the Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences.

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