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Guest speaker Adam Brickman, professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University, as well as research updates from Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

The double-blind trial, conducted at UK and UAB, found that older adults who took metformin while performing rigorous resistance exercise training had smaller gains in muscle mass than the placebo group.

The research is novel in that it is exploring efficacy in treating more than one form of dementia at the same time. 

Thanks to volunteers, SBCoA has played a role in many landmark discoveries, including debunking the theories that aluminum or mercury cause Alzheimer's, identifying so-called "AD mimics", and proving that there are changes in the brain decades before there are outward symptoms of AD.

Research from the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting has identified two potential ways to predict vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) – the second leading cause of dementia behind Alzheimer's disease.

It's the diagnosis those 65 and older often fear, but what are the chances you will be unhappy if you develop some cognitive impairment in the years ahead? A new study, authored by Anthony Bardo and Scott Lynch, tackles that very question by examining "cognitive life expectancy."

The 10th annual Mind Matters Health Fair will feature the latest information on healthy aging.

Jeramiah Smith, an associate professor of biology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss his research on the genome of sea lampreys to a broad audience, including undergraduates interested in biomedical research. It can be watched live 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 17.

The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been awarded a $2 million grant to train the next generation of dementia researchers.

Adam Bachstetter and Danielle Lyons are focusing on how glial cells in the brain are altered with aging.