Mon 3/14 @ 7PM
Drink up, sit back and learn about your brain & the importance of memory at the next Science Cafe Cleveland on Mon 3/14 featuring Alan Lerner, MD, Professor of Neurology at C.W.R.U. and Wojbor Woyczynski, PhD, Professor of Statistics at C.W.R.U.
Details:
Daily functioning, and indeed, our personal identity, is critically dependent on the integrity of our memories. Many tests can assess the functional integrity of short-term and long-term memory systems, while how the brain does what it does remains uncharted territory. One way to test memory is to ask someone to name items from a specific category such as animal names over one minute. This is sensitive to early memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease and many other brain disorders, and is widely used in medical research. Mathematical modeling of memory test can move us beyond merely counting the number of recalled items to understanding the timing and clustering of responses in young and older adults and how they change with aging.
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