Precision Aging Approach with the McKnight Brain Institute

Millions of people in the United States are living with a cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The current approach of “one size fits all” does not effectively help close the gap between an individual’s cognitive health span and their lifespan. Lee Ryan, PhD, is working with the McKnight Brain Institute to develop a new ways of understanding, preventing, and treating age-related cognitive impairments (ARCIs) based on ideas borrowed from precision medicine. Dr. Ryan will discuss how understanding key risk factors and chemical messengers in the brain are being used to advance cognitive research.