Endowed Chair, Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute for Learning-Memory Aging | Professor, Psychology | Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP | Professor, BIO5 Institute | Regents Professor | Professor, Translational Neuroscience | Professor, Cancer Biology - GIDP | Director, Neural Systems-Memory and Aging | Director, Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute | Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty
My work over the past four decades has focused on the aging brain, and how cognition changes during the course of normal aging. I use animal models of human aging that allow a detailed examination of the brain mechanisms of learning and memory, and the circuits responsible for complex cognitive function.