Join us for this practical, informative workshop on everyday habits that support cognitive function.
Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, PHD
About this event
Join us to learn about
Everyday habits that support cognitive function
Factors that increase or reduce a person’s risk for Alzheimer's disease, and what those factors mean for people with genetic mutations that cause familial Alzheimer’s disease
How cardiorespiratory fitness may impact Alzheimer's disease
How biofluid markers and cognitive and imaging measures may identify those who have brain damage due to Alzheimer's disease, but no symptoms.
The intersection between memory and emotions in Alzheimer's disease.
Please send your questions in advance to alicia@youngtimers.org.
Submitted questions will be addressed first, followed by an interactive conversation with Edmarie and the Youngtimers community.
About the featured guest, Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, Ph.D.
Guzmán-Véleza is a clinical neuropsychologist and scientist who serves as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Neuropsychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research investigates factors that increase or reduce our risk for Alzheimer's disease and dementia and their mechanisms.
Her current research focuses on examining how cardiorespiratory fitness may protect us from Alzheimer's disease and dementia by studying the world's largest kindred with autosomal-dominant Alzheimer's disease. She is also investigating what biofluid markers, and cognitive and imaging measures may be best at identifying those individuals who have brain damage due to Alzheimer's disease but no symptoms.
Guzmán-Vélez’s studies have focused on the intersection between memory and emotions in Alzheimer's disease, and she has contributed to the development of a promising intervention for caregivers of individuals with dementia.
Who should attend?
This conversation is open to family members and researchers or professionals in the early-onset neurodegenerative disease community.
Event recap
After the event, we’ll post video and a writeup of the event for those who were unable to attend.