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Charge your brain...
Jan. 31, 2008
Center co-director Art Kramer questions the effectiveness of brain-training products in this US News and World Report article. "Yes, we have data that says that you can get better at certain things with practice. But does it translate to the real world yet? We don't know."
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Public health issue of our time:
Oct 15, 2007
Center Co-Directory Denise Park emphasizes the need to research cognitive aging, as reported by the Associated Press.
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Lobes of Steel:
Aug 19, 2007
Center Co-Director Art Kramer's finding that
older adults who take up aerobic exercise can grow new brain cells is
referenced in the
New York Times.
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Dumbledore on aging:
Aug 2nd, 2007
Center researcher Liz Stine-Morrow uses
metaphors from the popular
"Harry Potter" series to describe how older adults have more power over
their cognitive vitality than they may believe. "It is our choices that
show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
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Dr. Kramer goes to Washington:
May 15th, 2007
Center Co-Director Art Kramer testified
before the Senate Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging at a hearing
covering breakthrough research in Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Kramer
covered his own research on exercise and aging and outlined future
avenues of intervention-based research. Visit the Committee webpage to watch the hearing or read the transcript.
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Learning throughout the lifespan:
May 8th, 2007
Center affiliate Liz Stine-Morrow's Senior Odyssey Project, originally funded by a Center for Healthy Minds seed
grant, has turned into a fully
funded research mandate.
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Culture affects the aging brain.
May 1st, 2007
Center Co-Director Denise Park and colleagues from Singapore have found that the aging brain reflects cultural
differences in the way that it processes visual information, reports the University of Illinois
News Bureau.
See also articles from
New Scientist,
Science Daily, and the Champaign
News-Gazette.
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Community Day a major
success!
Apr. 30th, 2007
The News-Gazette wraps up the message from Dr. Michael Roizen, the Center for Healthy Minds Community Day
speaker: make healthy changes to your lifestyle today, and it can reverse almost all the damage you've
done to your body in the past.
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Covering exercise and the brain:
Mar. 26th, 2007
Center Co-Director Arthur F. Kramer's research on aerobic exercise and the brain is featured in a Newsweek cover story this week.
"It's not just a matter of slowing down the aging process," says Arthur Kramer, a psychologist
at the University of Illinois. "It's a matter of reversing it. Mar. 26.
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RealAge:
Mar. 25th, 2007
Center affiliate Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko was interviewed by the
Free-Lance Star of Fredericksburg, W. V. about how lifestyle choices
affect the aging process. "Aging used to be something that just happened
to you," said Chodzko-Zajko. "Now we see it as a process that we all
partake in. We have more control in the aging process than we used to."
Also cited in the article is Dr. Michael Roizen, who will speak at the
Center's Community Day on April 29.
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Aging in the clouds:
Feb. 26th, 2007
A journal editorial co-authored by Center
researcher Dan Morrow, an associate professor at the Institute of
Aviation, was cited in this San Francisco Chronicle article
on the issue of aging airline pilots. "It is time to reconsider fixed
age limits for the workplace and consider transitioning to
competency-based evaluations of performance," he wrote.
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