CAN Lab

Thanks to a travel fellowship from the Alzheimer's Association, Dr. Morrison is in Paris attending the Alzheimer's Association International Conference and presenting collaborative work with the Northwestern Alzheimer's Disease Center.  The project is aimed at using EEG to develop biomarker's predicting the transition from health to pathologic aging, including Alzheimer's disease.  Work on this project enters its next phase with new funding from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/American Federation of Aging Research.

The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) is the world's largest conference of its kind, bringing together researchers from around the world to report and discuss groundbreaking research and information on the cause, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. As a part of the Alzheimer's Association's research program, AAIC serves as a catalyst for generating new knowledge about dementia and fostering a vital, collegial research community.

Above. Dr. Morrison with the lab's poster which he presented on Saturday at the Neuroimaging Preconference and then again as a part of the general AAIC conference.

Left. Paris kicked the conference off with Bastille Day.

Alzheimer's disease is the number one public health crisis of the 21st century and thus there are many interests represented at the conference...yes that really is a "free" cappuccino inscribed in chocolate with a drug company's name!

The CAN Lab is collaborating with Dr. Amy Bohnert's laboratory and Girls in the Game (www.girlsinthegame.org) to collect new data about the relationship between exercise and executive function in adolescent girls. "Coach Val" and I ("Coach Becky") collected data at the park yesterday! It was a beautiful Chicago summer morning and all of the girls seemed very happy to be at summer camp. We will return to collect more data in the park at the end of camp.