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Releasing the brakes on adult plasticity (REBOOT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

"Age-related cognitive impairments compromise the functional capacity of aging individuals, and create major individual and societal costs. Developing means for preserving and restoring cognitive functioning in old age is therefore of great importance. Age-related cognitive impairments have a complex and multifactorial etiology. Pharmaceutical approaches to prevention and treatment have therefore ...
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Personalised Guide for Eating and Activity Behaviour for the Prevention of Obesity and Eating Disorders (SPLENDID)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The emergence of eating disorders and obesity as major health concerns increased research in these fields. However, impressive advances in neurobiology, genetics and sociology of eating had minor clinical or sociological impact. In obesity, pharmacological interventions have failed and while life-style interventions seem moderately successful, they are embedded in specific social contexts. In the ...
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Alterations in Memory Networks in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: Relating the Impact of Amyloid Burden with PIB-PET on Neuronal Activation as Assessed with fMRI (MCI_AD PIB-PET_fMRI)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2014,

The main objective of this first 2-year period as a post-doctoral research fellow at BWH/MGH Harvard Medical School is to get training in novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Pittsburgh Compound B–Positron Emission Tomography (PIB-PET) techniques, their analysis methods, and applications to aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases. The final purpose is to advance the candidate’s prof ...
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