UTD Aims To Find Most Potent Roots of Aging Brain’s Ailments

Dr. Gagan Wig, a University of Texas at Dallas expert on the healthy and pathological aging of the brain, has received National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to develop animal models of the social factors that are believed to affect aging humans’ susceptibility to neurological diseases.

“Our goal is to be able to identify health and lifestyle factors that can slow down progression of age-related brain disease, such as Alzheimer’s,” said Wig, associate professor of psychology at UTD.