DALLAS – August 31, 2017 – Dr. Kristen Kennedy’s Neuroimaging of Aging and Cognition lab is receiving more than $2.5 million in federal funding to complete a six-and-a-half-year study to better understand what individual factors influence brain structure, function, and cognition over time.

Approximately 180 people will be studied individually at three timepoints to track how each person is aging, and whether an individual’s aging trajectory is influenced by levels of dopamine. Perhaps most excitingly, says Dr. Kennedy, is the opportunity to utilize baseline genetic information to gauge the risk or protection provided by varying levels of the neurotransmitter, while charting each individual’s neurocognitive trajectory over several years…