Scott Small, MD, Discusses the Past, Present, and Future of Alzheimer's Disease Research

2000 Beeson Scholar Scott Small, MD, spoke at an April 29, 2009, lecture hosted by AFAR:

Dr. Scott Small is the Herbert Irving Associate Professor in Neurology at Columbia University. With a background in cellular physiology, he has focused on using new imaging modalities to investigate both normal and pathological mechanisms of the brain.

Dr. Small was the first investigator at Columbia University to use functional MRI (fMRI), and he led a team of investigators who published the first article using fMRI to investigate Alzheimer's disease and memory decline in the aging population. More recently, Dr. Small has developed a novel high-resolution application of fMRI, which can be used to investigate physiologic dysfunction in the mouse brain. He is a recipient of the Paul Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research (www.beeson.org), a program of the American Federation for Aging Research.

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