The unprecedented expansion in the elderly segment of the United States’ population, coupled with dearth of an effective cure, raises real concerns that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will become a public health epidemic in the near future. Accordingly, the identification of potential pathways for curbing the progression of the underlying disease process and delaying the onset of symptoms has become a national public health imperative. In this session, we will present evidence that certain lifestyle adaptations and genetic endowments favorably influence AD biomarker profile and cognitive trajectory particularly against the constraints imposed by advancing age and APOE4 genotype, the two best-established risk factors for AD.
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Dr. Ozioma Okonkwo is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on clarifying how alterations in the brain and other biomolecules place some cognitively normal individuals on a pernicious trajectory that culminates in Alzheimer’s disease dementia. In this context, Dr. Okonkwo is also interested in discovering new knowledge concerning the modulation of the link between brain changes and cognitive decline by both modifiable and non-modifiable factors. Overlaid on this research agenda are investigations of health inequities, and how such inequities exacerbate or ameliorate the impact of biomarkers on clinical phenotypes.
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Science Sundays is a free lecture series open to the public that provides a wide range of current and emerging topics and issues in science that touch our everyday lives. Speakers are experts in their fields from on campus and around the world with experience in making their topics interesting and accessible for audiences of all ages, with or without a science background.
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