Cognitive Aging and Brain Health

Dr. Zhanjun Zhang is a professor and associate director of State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University. He is also the vice president of Aging Cognitive Disorder Council of Chinese Geriatrics Society and winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Prof. Zhang’s research focuses on cognitive aging and brain health, and he makes great efforts to establish the prevention system of cognitive impairment in late adulthood. To date, Dr.  Zhang has published more than 110 research articles on international journals in this field of cognitive neuroscience of aging.

• The world of Brain: from Aging Brain, Diseased Brain to Social Brain .- Cognitive Aging：How the Brain Ages.- Cognitive Decline Associated with Aging.- The Overview of Cognitive Aging Model.- The Emotional and Affective Disorders in Cognitive Aging.- The Mechanism of Socioeconomic Status and Stress Effects on Cognition.- The Aging Patterns of Brain Structure, Function and Energy Metabolism.- Characteristics of Brain Network during Cognitive Aging.-  Biomolecular Markers of Brain Aging.- Neurobiological Mechanisms of Cognitive Decline Caused by Brain Aging.- The Early Stage of Abnormal Aging: Cognitive Impairment.- The Terminal Stage of Abnormal Aging: Dementia.- The Effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation Training and Its Neuroimaging and Physiology Evidence.- Lifestyle Regulation and Its Evidence: Changes brought from Adjusting Correlative Factors of Cognitive Aging.- The Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Delaying Age-related Cognitive Decline and Its Evidence.