Wednesday Nite at the Lab

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Nov. 2: "The SuperAgers Study," by Ozioma Onkonkwo

Ozioma Onkonkwo of Geriatrics & Gerontology in the School of Medicine & Public Health will give us a look under the hood at “SuperAgers,” people over the age of 80 who have superior memory capacity.

“I am thrilled to bring the SuperAging study to Wisconsin,” Okonkwo said upon the news in December that UW was named one of five new international sites for the study.

“Understanding the factors that enable SuperAgers to remain cognitively sharp has the potential to provide researchers with useful clues about ways to help us all maintain optimal brain health into late life.”

Okonkwo and his team will eventually recruit 100 participants to join the SuperAging study.

Other sites in the new multi-center SuperAging consortium coordinated through Northwestern University are located in Michigan and Georgia, as well as southwest Ontario. 

The SuperAging consortium is led by Emily Rogalski, PhD, associate director of the Mesulam Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Changiz Geula, PhD, research professor at the Mesulam Center, and Marsel Mesulam, MD, director of the Mesulam Center.