Normal Brain Aging: Impact on Circuits for Memory

Join us for the annual Cheves Smythe Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 featuring Carol Barnes, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona at the UTHealth Medical School, 6431 Fannin at Ross Sterling, Houston, Texas 77030 at 4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Dr. Carol Barnes is a Regents’ Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Neurology and Neuroscience, the Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging, Director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Director of the ARL Division of Neural Systems, Memory & Aging, and Associate Director of the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Dr. Barnes is past-president of the 42,000 member Society for Neuroscience, an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. She recently received the 2013 Gerard Prize in Neuroscience and the 2014 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.

The central goal of Dr. Barnes’ research program is to understand how the brain changes during the aging process and what the functional consequences of these changes are on information processing and memory.