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Memory protection in old age - science fact or science fiction?

Speaker: Professor Lawrence Whalley
27th October 2001

With age, mental speed slows and some mental abilities become less efficient. These problems are best accounted for by failing brain repair mechanisms. This talk explains how the tools of epidemiology and molecular biology have combined to offer novel approaches to memory protection in old age and even earlier.

Lawrence Whalley is Professor of Mental Health at the University of Aberdeen. He graduated from the Medical School, Newcastle-up-Tyne in 1969 and trained in psychiatry at Oxford and Edinburgh. He has researched the biology of mental illness since 1978, and has focused on brain ageing and dementia since 1990. He now holds a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award to identify the sources of individual differences in brain ageing.

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