In the latest addition to our “Ask the Expert” interview series, AFAR grantee Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, discusses using video games in his research to measure cognitive control, neural networks, and memory in healthy older adults, and the future of using gaming to benefit those with cognitive impairments, dementia, and other age-related diseases.
Dr. Gazzaley is a 2002 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Researchrecipient, and a 2005 Pfizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Research Grant recipient. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of Neuroscape; the Co-Founder and Chief Science Advisor at Akili Interactive, Sensync, and JAZZ Venture Partners; and a David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division at Weill Institute for Neuroscience in the University of California, San Francisco.
Read the interview here.
The interview also appears on the PBS website, Next Avenue, here.
