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The Metabolic Brain: How Obesity and Diabetes Alter Blood Flow, Oxygen Metabolism and the Blood-Brain Barrier — Frontiers of BrainHealth Lecture
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Free, Hybrid Event ↗ Don't miss the Frontiers of BrainHealth fall season opener! The Metabolic Brain: How Obesity and Diabetes Alter Blood Flow, Oxygen Metabolism and the Blood-Brain Barrier — Frontiers of BrainHealth Lecture Binu Thomas, PhD – Assistant Professor at the Advanced Imaging Research Center, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Dept. of Radiology, UT Southwestern Obesity and type 2 diabetes are increasingly recognized as important risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia, but how metabolic dysfunction affects the brain remains incompletely understood. This talk explores how obesity and diabetes alter key aspects of brain physiology, including cerebral blood flow, oxygen extraction, and blood-brain barrier function. Using advanced, noninvasive MRI methods, Dr. Thomas' studies reveal that brain function in older adults with type 2 diabetes and obesity are associated with glycemic control and cognitive function. He also presents preliminary findings that examine whether weight loss and improvement in diabetes may reverse or normalize some of these brain changes. Together, this work highlights the cerebrovascular system as an important link between metabolic health and brain health and raises the possibility that some diabetes- and obesity-related brain abnormalities may be modifiable. Host: TBA Note on Speaker Change: Aron Barby, PhD, director of the Notre Dam Neuroimaging Center, was originally scheduled to speak on this date. We are currently working to reschedule Dr. Barby's talk. Frontiers of BrainHealth is a hybrid speaker series. Register for the season, and you will get a link to the virtual talks as well as available recordings. If you are interested in attending any of the talks in person, please note that you can confirm attendance when we send you a reminder email a few days prior to each talk. For more information, visit our FAQs or email brainhealthevents@utdallas.edu.
- Starts
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- 1:00PM
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- Center for BrainHealth's Brain Performance Institute (second building inside the parking lot):
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- University of Texas at Dallas