Young Blood for Old Brains

Air date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 3pm Duration: 00 :59 :40 Description: Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series - WALS Florence S. Mahoney Lectures on Aging Dr. Wyss-Coray is the D.H. Chen Professor in the Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Co-Director, NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. He and the Wyss-Coray research team are following up on earlier discoveries which showed that circulatory blood factors can modulate brain structure and function, and that factors from young organisms can rejuvenate old brains and, vice versa, factors from old mice are detrimental for young mice and impair cognition. Wyss-Coray’s lab is part of the Glenn Center for Aging at Stanford University, the Stanford Neurosciences Institute’s Brain Rejuvenation Project, and NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. He and his team are funded by the American Heart Association / Allen Initiative, NIA, and the NOMIS Foundation Evidence has indi