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The Center for Vital Longevity at The University of Texas at Dallas is dedicated to unlocking the secrets of the aging mind and the maintenance of cognitive health. Led by co-directors Dr. Denise Park and Dr. Michael Rugg, center scientists use advanced brain-imaging technology and research techniques in cognitive neuroscience with the aim of understanding, maintaining and improving the vitality of the aging mind. The evidence-based results from such studies ultimately could lead to new interventions to maintain mental vitality in an aging populace.

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CVL in the News


February 2, 2012 | BBC Radio
'Right patient' key to early Alzheimer detection
Dr. Denise Park on amyloid and Alzheimer's Read more >>
February 1, 2012 | UTD News Center
Study Links Alzheimer's Marker to Deficits in Healthy People
Center for Vital Longevity researchers measure beta-amyloid levels in adults across lifespan. Read more >>
January 19, 2012 | Dallas Morning News
Alzheimer’s Researcher to Address Local Symposium
A leading expert on Alzheimer’s disease, will deliver the keynote address at a scientific symposium hosted by UT Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity. Read more >>
January 12, 2012 | CVL News
Center Announces Spring Lecture Series
The Center for Vital Longevity is pleased to announce the schedule for its Spring semester Science Luncheon Series. Read more >>
January 3, 2012 | UTD News Center
Symposium to Explore Transition from Neural Health to Alzheimer’s Disease
Changes in the brain that occur during normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease will be the focus of a symposium to be held at the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity on Jan. 20. Read more >>
November 30, 2011 | CVL News
Invited Memory and Cognition Expert to Speak About Boosting Intelligence
On December 5, 2011 the center welcomes award-winning scientist Dr. John Jonides, professor of psychology and neuroscience and co-director of the functional MRI Center at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, to its Fall Science Luncheon Series. Read more >>
November 21, 2011 | The Chronicle
Aging Brains Create 'Scaffolds' to Shore Up Eroding Abilities
Dr. Denise Park, co-director of the Center for Vital Longevity at UT Dallas, has a theory that suggests that aging brains recruit extra regions to support fading capabilities. Read more >>
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Center Events

Science Luncheon Series

Spring 2012 Schedule

All presentations for the 2012 Spring series will be held in the Center for Vital Longevity Conference Room (8th floor) at 12:00-1:00 p.m., unless noted otherwise. Lunch is provided.

 

  • February 13, 2012

  • Bart Rypma, PhD

    Taking the measure of age-related neurocognitive change

  • Associate Professor

    UT Dallas Behavioral and Brain Sciences

  • February 20, 2012

  • Russ Poldrack, PhD

    Using cognitive neuroinformatics to map mind and brain

  • Professor and Director, Imaging Research Center

    UT Austin

  • February 27, 2012

  • John Sweeney, PhD

    Sensorimotor alterations in autism

  • Professor

    UT Southwestern Psychiatry and Pediatrics

  • March 5, 2012

  • Jinkyung Na, PhD

    Culture, Age, and Cognition

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    Center for Vital Longevity, UT Dallas

  • March 19, 2012

  • Craig Stark, PhD

    Pattern Separation and the Aging Hippocampus

  • Professor and Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

    UC Irvine

Upcoming Talks

by Center Scientists

  • February 22, 2012

  • Denise Park, PhD

    Maintaining a Healthy Brain: The Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition

  • Institute for Successful Longevity Seminar, Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

  • March 4, 2012

  • Michael Rugg, PhD

    Brain regions and networks underlying episodic memory retrieval: fMRI evidence

  • 10th Tsukuba International Conference on Memory (Tokyo, Japan)