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Aging studies professor speaks at conference in Sweden

Brent Small, PhD speaks at Karolinska Institutet

Brent Small, PhD is a professor in the School of Aging Studies. 

Brent Small, PhD, a professor in the School of Aging Studies, gave an invited talk at The Aging Brain: Memory, Plasticity and Dopamine, a conference hosted by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden on Aug. 26. This conference was held in honor of Professor Lars Bäckman, one of Sweden’s most-cited psychologists and Small’s former post-doctoral advisor. Small's presentation “Minne och Mig: Reflections on Episodic Memory and Lars Bäckman” reviewed research on early changes in memory performance associated with Alzheimer’s disease – work that he had conducted with Professor Bäckman.

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