Mind Matters: A Podcast Produced by the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Dr. Erin Abner, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology with joint appointments in the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and the Department of Biostatistics, joins the Mind Matters podcast to share about National Public Health Week, April 1-7. 

 

For more information about Dr. Erin Abner, visit https://cph.uky.edu/directory/erin-abner.


For details about the UK College of Public Health’s weeklong celebratory activities, visit https://cph.uky.edu/events/national-public-health-week-2024. 

For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.

March 21st is World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), a global awareness day for Down Syndrome. Sanders-Brown researchers share about WDSD, the talents of some of the research participants, and ways you can celebrate WDSD.

For more information about Down Syndrome research, visit https://www.alzheimers.gov/clinical-trials/alzheimers-biomarkers-consortium-down-syndrome and https://dsctn.org/life-dsr/.

To find out more about how to participate in a study, e-mail Roberta Davis at roberta.davis@uky.edu. 

For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us at ⁠https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa⁠.

To celebrate WDSD, proudly share pictures of your mismatched or brightly colored socks on social media by tagging #LotsOfSocks or #WorldDownSyndromeDay.

In honor of Traumatic Brain Injury Month, Dr. Adam Bachstetter, PhD joins the podcast to discuss his expertise.  Will a traumatic brain injury lead to Alzheimer’s disease? How does the brain protect itself from further
damage? Dr. Bachstetter  is an Associate Professor
of Neuroscience at the University of Kentucky. His primary affiliation is with the Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC). He is also affiliated with the UK SBCoA.  His work focuses on  therapeutic approaches to
target neuroinflammation following traumatic brain injury and in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He also focuses on the cellular processes involved in microglia and astrocyte degeneration in neurodegenerative disease.

For more information about Dr. Bachstetter and his work, visit http://bachstetterlab.org.

For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us at https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.

Dr. Shannon Macauley joins the podcast in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky and recently joined the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging as an affiliate faculty member.

For more information about Dr. Macauley and her work, visit https://www.macauleylab.com/. Follow her on X at @macauleylab.  For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us at ⁠https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.

Dr. Alaine Reschke-Hernandez joins the podcast to discuss her passion of music therapy and its effect on those with dementia. She is an assistant professor of music therapy at the UK College of Fine Arts and recently joined the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging as an affiliate faculty member.  

For more information about Dr. Reschke-Hernandez
and her work, visit https://imagnlab.createuky.net/⁠. For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on
Aging, visit us at ⁠https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.

Dr. Brian Gold, PhD joins the podcast to discuss cognitive reserve and lifestyle factors as they pertain to neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Gold is the director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging lab and a Professor in
the Departments of Neuroscience and Radiology. He is also a Co-Director of UK's MRI Center, and a Co-Director of the Biomarker Core at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging’s Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. For more information about Dr. Gold and his lab, visit https://sites.google.com/view/gold-cognitive-aging/home
For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us at https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.