Brain Health: Preserving and promoting function, preventing disease, and restoring brain function after injury

April 22

9 AM-4:45 PM

Simches Auditorium

  • Introduction to the Institute for Brain Health (9:00 – 9:30)
  • Greg Fricchione, Department of Psychiatry, Benson-Henry Institute
  • Jonathan Rosand, Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine
  • Rudy Tanzi, Department of Neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit
  • Sensitive periods in brain development: Therapeutic opportunities for enhancing brain health across the lifespan (9:30 – 10:20)
  • Erin Dunn, Department of Psychiatry, Center for Genomic Medicine
  • Leigh Hochberg, Department of Neurology, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery
  • The Brain as System: One Organ, Overlapping Disorders (10:20 – 11:30)
  • Benjamin Neale, Center for Genomic Medicine, Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Broad Institute
  • Joan Camprodon, Department of Psychiatry
  • Laboratory models for studying brain health (11:30-11:55)
  • Doo Yeon Kim, Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
  • Lunch provided (12:00 – 12:40)
  • Successful Brain Aging: Superagers(12:40-1:00)
  • Bradford Dickerson, Department of Neurology, Martinos Center
  • Primary prevention of brain disease in individuals at high risk (1:00-1:20)
  • Reisa Sperling, Department of Neurology, Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Monitoring and Improving Brain Health in the Office (1:20-2:10)

  • Gait screening
  • Julie Mello, Department of Physical Therapy
  • Blood pressure
  • Alessandro Biffi, Department of Neurology
  • Preserving brain health in care-givers (2:10-2:35)
  • Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Department of Psychiatry
  • Coffee Break (2:35-2:50)
  • Preventing delirium in the elderly (2:50-3:15)
  • Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju, Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Critical Care
  • Preserving brain health with social networks (3:15-3:40)
  • Joel Salinas, Department of Neurology
  • Concussions and Brain Health in Athletes (3:40-4:05)
  • Grant Iverson, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Home Base Program
  • Conclusions and Next Steps (4:05-4:30)
  • Greg Fricchione, Department of Psychiatry, Benson-Henry Institute
  • Jonathan Rosand, Department of Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine
  • Rudy Tanzi, Department of Neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit

To be addressed in the introduction and conclusions/Next steps:

  • Monitoring and Improving Brain Function with Technology
  • Joan Camprodon, Department of Psychiatry
  • Stress, Resilence and Happiness
  • Greg Fricchione, Psychiatry/Benson-Henry
  • Rigorously Testing Alternative Therapies for Brain Health
  • Rudy Tanzi, Department of Neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit
  • The Brain as Agent of its Own Health: Self-Directed Biological Transformation
  • Rudy Tanzi, Department of Neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit