Speaker Bio
Recordings from Brain³ Summit, February 21-22, 2024
We invite you to share the Brain³ Summit experience and take action in your community – become inspired by these innovators and changemakers as they reveal the best thinking on the power of proactive, preventive brain health and its enormous economic benefit.
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Michael Merzenich, PhD
Distinguished BrainHealth Collaborator
Dr. Michael Merzenich believes we can truly change how our society manages brain health. Novel, small-scale cognitive training programs have yielded exciting breakthroughs – showing it is possible to improve cognitive performance and real-world function in healthy adults as well as people with clinically significant cognitive disorders. The next step is to get this out of the laboratory and into the lives of people.
A leading pioneer in brain plasticity research, Dr. Merzenich has published nearly 300 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and has received numerous recognitions – including the Russ Prize, Ipsen Prize, Zülch Prize, Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, Purkinje Medal, and the Kavli Prize (one of the world’s top neuroscience honors). His work has been highlighted in hundreds of books about the brain, learning, rehabilitation and plasticity.