Liz Chrastil presented at the fourth NIH Cognitive Aging Summit held on March 20th, 2024! Here, she discussed our lab’s findings with regards to Human spatial navigation during midlife: Sex differences in behavior and circuitry, and addressed the following questions:
- How do navigation abilities change during early aging?
- Do the circuits that are associated with navigation change as we age?
- How do sex differences in navigation change during the course of aging?
- Do any changes in navigation ability relate to the menopausal transition?
- Can we use navigation as a tool to determine risk for dementia, especially for women?
Overall, the NIH Cognitive Aging Summit gathered scientific presentations and discussion of age-related brain and cognitive change, with a particular focus on individual differences and the development of personalized approaches to the remediation of decline and the maintenance of health.
