Midlife-Onset Alcohol Dependence: Causes and Consequences
What drives the onset of alcohol dependence in midlife? How does it present unique challenges, and what strategies can help when it disrupts the lives of individuals and their families? In this episode of Under the Cortex, host Özge Gürcanlı...
Exploring How Emotion, Aging, and Sleep Impact Memory
Image above: Portraits of Randi Martin (L) and Elizabeth Kensinger (R). In my presidential column from the October Observer, I discussed how research in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience has moved from being focused solely on the “colder” aspects of...
Too Many Connections? How Aging Impacts Memory and Recall
How does the brain’s memory function change as we grow older? What recent discoveries are helping us understand these changes better? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum welcomes Karen Campbell of Brock University to discuss how aging impacts memory....