June 2004
June 17, 6-8 pm
UAA Campus Bookstore presents "Dementia and Aging: The Hope
of Brain Science" with Verner P. Bingham
Verner Bingman, Ph.D. is the Professor of Psychology and head of
Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience Program at the State University
of New York at Albany. Dr. Bingam will present a perspective on
how brain researchers currently understand how the brain comes
to represent memory and brain abnormalities that accompany dementia,
with a focus on Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Bingman will describe
how brain researchers are exploring ways to treat the symptoms
of dementia using current information about memory and brain abnormalities
associated with dementia. Everyone welcome to attend. Dr. Bingham's
visit is sponsored by the UAA Institute for Gerontology. Refreshments
will be served. For more information contact Dr. Rosellen Rosich
at 786-1739 or Rachel Epstein at 786-4782.
