Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the two-year dissertation study will examine the associations between cardiovascular risk (including both risk factors like hypertension and comorbidities like myocardial infarction), brain-based measures of vascular neuropathology (white matter hyperintensities in regions of interest), and trajectories of change across four cognitive domains (Memory, Attention, Executive Function/Processing Speed, and Language).

We are a consortium of Florida institutions helping to change the current understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias from being incurable, inevitable and largely untreatable to a new reality in which these diseases are curable, preventable and treatable.

The Augmenting Cognitive Training in Older Adults (ACT Study) evaluates the benefit of delivering adjunctive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) when combined with cognitive training in older adults.