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Mission: The mission of the Center for Healthy Minds is to stimulate research on the topic of healthy minds and to disseminate research findings to scientists, the public, and government agencies about the factors that facilitate maintenance of a healthy mind into late adulthood.
Center Theme: Center research focuses on a broad range of intervention strategies that may improve cognitive function in older adults. Most of the interventions could be easily implemented as part of one's lifestyle. Interventions include physical activity, cognitively challenging activities, and social stimulation. All may promote older adults' continued autonomy and independence.
Leadership: The Center for Healthy Minds is led by Co-Directors Denise C. Park, Ph.D., and Arthur Kramer, Ph.D., both professors of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professors Park and Kramer have an extensive history of applying basic laboratory findings on cognitive aging to real-world problems.
For a complete bio of Prof. Park, please click here. For a complete bio of Prof. Kramer, please click here.
Funding: The Center for Healthy Minds is an Edward R. Roybal Center for Research on Applied Gerontology. The Roybal Centers are funded by the Behavioral and Social Research Program at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health. The Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is currently in the third year of a five-year grant that in total exceeds $1 million.
Volunteers: The Center for Healthy Minds has developed a database of over a thousand older adult volunteers. The Center recruits volunteers aged 60 and over for its studies from the greater Champaign and Vermilion County area. Subjects are well compensated for their time.
Location: Many of our researchers are based at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology in Urbana, Ill. The Beckman Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition. The Institute's primary mission is to foster interdisciplinary work of the highest quality in an environment that transcends many of the limitations inherent in traditional university organizations and structures.
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