02/15/2024
10:45 am - 11:40 am
Room: Broadway Ballroom
Plenary B
Session Host Name: David Loring Host's Role: Introduction
Studying Cognitive Reserve
Summary Abstract:
The cognitive reserve hypothesis posits that individual differences in the flexibility and adaptability of brain networks underlying cognitive function may allow some people to cope better than others with age- or disease-related brain changes. This talk will review the development and epidemiologic support for this concept. The neural implementation of cognitive reserve can be studied with functional imaging approaches; both resting BOLD and cognitive activation studies will be described. Finally, the implications of these concepts for healthy cognitive aging will be discussed.
Number of Credit Hours: 1.0
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Learning Objectives:
1. define cognitive reserve
2. define brain maintenance
3. describe life exposures that support cognitive reserve
Presenter(s):
Yaakov Stern, PhD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Yaakov Stern is the Florence Irving Professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, as well as the Taub Institute for the Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, at Columbia University Irving College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Department of Neurology.
Dr. Stern earned his B.A. in Psychology from Touro College, and his Ph.D. from the Experimental Cognition program of City University of New York.
Dr. Stern’s research focuses on cognition in normal aging and in diseases of aging, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Stern’s research was crucial to identifying and clarifying the nature of cognitive reserve, which is a theory that explains individual differences in the susceptibility to age-and disease-related brain changes.
Dr. Stern also leads a large scale imaging study to identify unique neural networks underlying the major cognitive abilities affected by aging, and another long-term study that models the natural history of Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Stern’s research approach includes classic neuropsychological and cognitive experimental techniques, with a strong focus on functional imaging. He has published over 700 peer-reviewed papers, numerous chapters, and edited a book on cognitive reserve.
