Join Dr. Adam Gazzaley from U.C. San Francisco as he explains why it's normal to forget and the science behind why our memory fumbles with age. You'll learn what's happening in the brain when we pay attention and when we're distracted.

Adam will give an inside look into the state-of-the-art scientific research aimed at understanding the neural basis of attention and memory. Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Gazzaley will talk about what we can do to keep our minds fit and nimble as we get older.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley,
University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Gazzaley was born and raised in New York City. He obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His doctoral research focused on receptor plasticity in the hippocampus in normal aging. This research earned him the prestigious 1997 Krieg Cortical Scholar Award. He then completed a clinical residency in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, he traveled to UC Berkeley for a cognitive neuroscience research fellowship and a clinical fellowship in cognitive neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

Dr. Gazzaley is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Physiology at UCSF. He is the director of a cognitive neuroscience laboratory at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, which focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms of memory and attention in humans, how these processes change with normal aging and dementia, and how we might intervene to improve cognitive abilities.