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Q&A with Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Kathleen Poston about her work past and present on Parkinson’s disease. Poston studies the pathophysiology underlying the cognitive, behavioral and motor symptoms characteristic of Parkinson’s.

Knight Initiative Innovation Grant awardee and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Jonathan Long received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.

The science to advance our understanding of the aging process—and to potentially slow it down—has made important strides. One of the leading scientists responsible for this work is Professor Tony Wyss-Coray, whose work has focused on brain aging.

A study in mice suggests that the most pronounced changes that occur over time are in the white matter—neurons that are integral to transmitting signals across the brain. The research also examined how two anti-aging treatments—caloric restriction and inf

Funded in part by the Knight Initiative , researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study.