Lab News
Brad Taylor defends dissertation proposal
On Friday June 25/2021, Brad Taylor successfully defended his doctoral dissertation proposal entitled “Feasibility and Effectiveness of a…
Lindsay Rotblatt successfully defends dissertation
On Monday May 24, 2021, Lindsay Rotblatt successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Cognitive Aging Trajectories: Cardiovascular Risk, White…
Joshua Owens successfully defends Masters Thesis
Congratulations to Joshua Owens, who successfully defended his Masters Thesis, “The effects of occupational complexity on late life…
Research AREAS
Current Research
ACTIVE Cognitive Training Trial: 20-Yr Follow-up of Functioning, Health, and Dementia
The Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study is the largest randomized clinical trial (N = 2802) to examine whether cognitive training enhanced both cognitive abilities and everyday functioning in normal older adults. This 20-year follow-up would allows us to address whether training-related enhancement of cognition and everyday functioning associated with a long-term reduction in disability, loss of independence, and incident dementia.
Current Research
1Florida ADRC
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.
Current Research
Augmenting Cognitive Training
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.
Welcome to my personal pages
Michael Marsiske, Ph.D.
Welcome to my personal pages. On these pages, you can get links to (a) course resources for my classes, (b) details about the National Institute on Aging-funded predoctoral research training program that I administer, (c) research and professional information about me and (d) links to organizations and individuals of current and historical relevance to me.
