General Meetings
November 25, 2020, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
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Healthy Brain Aging
Lara Boyd is a Neuroscientist and Physical Therapist at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Boyd has held a Canada Research Chair and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Career Scientist award, and has been a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar. Dr. Boyd directs the Brain Behaviour Lab at the University of British Columbia. Her work is centred on answering the question of what limits, and what facilitates, neuroplasticity. Dr. Boyd also serves as the Health Research Advisor to the Vice President for Research and is the university’s delegate to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her TEDx talk “After this your brain will not be the same” has over 27 million views.
In this talk, Dr. Boyd will provide an overview of how the brain can change with learning and how these processes change as we age. She will discuss recent findings considering how behaviour can shape brain plasticity and impact age-related changes.
Time line
1:30pm Business Meeting
1:45pm Speaker - Lara Boyd
2:30pm Q&A
3:00pm End of meeting