John Hamilton
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Her name is Judy Pa.
That's part of the idea, is that one of the biggest challenges with both mental and cognitive fitness programs is you've got to find something that people will keep doing even when they're not in a scientific study, right?
So I asked another brain scientist about that when I was at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto recently.
Her name is Jessica Langbaum, and she runs the Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Banner Health in Phoenix.
This is her advice on lifestyle change.
That social interaction seems to add something to any kind of cognitive or physical exercise.
And if you do...
Your brain will stay young forever.
About 20,000 brain scientists are expected to attend this year's meeting.
Usually, they discuss topics like the brain circuitry involved in Alzheimer's disease.
But a prominent topic at this year's meeting is cuts and disruptions at agencies including the National Institutes of Health.
John Morrison of the University of California, Davis, is the society's president.
Morrison says many young scientists no longer see a path to a career in research.
If they choose other fields, he says, it will slow efforts to treat diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and schizophrenia.
Researchers studied nerve cells from 19 people who died after experiencing repeated head injuries, often from playing sports like football.
Four of these people had healthy brains.
Fifteen had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a neurodegenerative disease often found in athletes.