Webinar | Brain Stimulation Methods to Improve Memory Day and Night

28 June, 2023 - 28 June, 2023

Learning is essential for our success and survival. Memory deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia lead to decreased quality and duration of life along with increased expenses for patients and their caregivers. New methods that improve learning ability could lead to many benefits, both for healthy people and those with memory disorders.

In this session, Dr. Vince Clark will present:

• Attempts to improve memory encoding during training with MRI-guided transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
• Memory consolidation during sleep with closed-loop transcranial alternating current stimulation (CLtACS)
• And separately during sleep with closed loop auditory sound stimulation (CLASS).
• fMRI-guided tDCS protocols that greatly increase learning in difficult visual categorization tasks, with 2-4 times improvement in performance depending on the specific learning task used.
• Discussion of some of the challenges and possible paths forward for disseminating these and similar methods to community medicine to help treat symptoms of dementia and help improve memory for all.

Get to know our speaker, Dr. Vince Clark, PhD, Director Psychology Clinical Neuroscience Center (PCNC):

Dr. Vince Clark received his BS in Psychobiology from UCLA, and his PhD in Neuroscience from UCSD. He completed postdoctoral training with Drs. James Haxby and Leslie Ungerleider at NIMH in the National Institutes of Health, and was Scientific Director of the Mind Research Network (https://www.mrn.org) before becoming Founding Director of the Psychology Clinical Neuroscience Center at the University of New Mexico where he is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is also the founding Chair of the Brain Stimulation and Imaging Meeting, an international meeting focused on the combination of brain imaging and stimulation. His research involves the study of both healthy cognition and clinical disorders employing a combination of imaging tools including MRI, EEG, and fNIRS, and a wide variety of brain stimulation methods. His group is looking for new ways to combine brain imaging and different forms of energy (including electrical, magnetic, infrared light, physical pressure, and ultrasound) together to increase learning and performance in healthy people, and to treat symptoms of dementia, addiction, schizophrenia, chronic pain, and other disorders.

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