Aging Brain: Neuroscience of Getting Older and Wiser

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Same as Physiological Science M141.) Lecture, two and one half hours. Students become familiar with the field of neurocognitive aging through a neurobiological and cognitive framework. Students gain knowledge of the aging process as well as differentiating normal from pathological aging. Topics include how cognition and the brain change across the lifespan. Focus on memory processing, differences between normal and pathological aging, neurobiological changes with age and dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease, and individual differences in aging. Letter grading.