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Maintaining Brain Health

Maintaining Brain Health. The Viva! Program. Does active engagement improve cognitive function? Can we defer cognitive aging? The Viva! Study: Expose subjects to productive engagement for 15 hours of week for two or more months and include a matched control.

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Maintaining Brain Health

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  1. Maintaining Brain Health

  2. The Viva! Program • Does active engagement improve cognitive function? Can we defer cognitive aging? • The Viva! Study: Expose subjects to productive engagement for 15 hours of week for two or more months and include a matched control. • Engaged subjects learn to quilt: visuospatial, motor, memory, social stimulation • Subjects learning digital photography engaged memory, motor skills, working memory and also received social stimulation.

  3. Active Engagement

  4. Cultural Neuroscience: A New Take on Plasticity • Is brain and cognitive function equivalent across cultures? • Does culture affect brain organization or structure. • Work with Michael Chee in Singapore

  5. fMR-Adaptation Experimental Design

  6. Old asians have NO object area; old Americans have a diminished object area. Both culture and age exert effects SG US Goh et al., 2007, CABN P < .005 (uncorr)

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