Schedule and Presentations 2018
The theme of the 2018 conference will be “Cognitive Reserve/Resilience”. Cognitive reserve refers to person-specific characteristics that protect against cognitive declines associated with age related disease and brain changes. Resilience is a broader term describing better health outcomes in the presence of risk. Understanding factors that contribute to reserve and resilience is important for identifying public policy and individual level recommendations to promote cognitive health and reduce the enormous burden of diseases of aging, including Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of cognitive decline in older adults.
This conference will include lectures that address recent advances in conceptualizing and measuring cognitive reserve and review historical and contemporary research in the area. This will provide a foundation for workgroups that will perform analyses on existing datasets to better understand life experience, clinical, and genetic characteristics that contribute to reserve and reveal cognitive and brain substrates of risk and resilience. As in previous conferences, there will be an emphasis on workgroups that will engage in collaborative science to generate publications that advance the field of cognitive aging and foster the development of multidisciplinary networks of researchers.