2021 Hybrid Meeting Archive
Optimal Longevity:
Mechanisms, Reducing Health Disparities, and Increasing Healthspan
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VIDEO: Welcoming Words and Meeting Overview
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VIDEO: Keynote Address 1
How early life shapes adult health, brain aging, and reversibility
Terrie Moffitt, PhD, Duke University
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VIDEO: Neal Miller New Investigator Award
Warming Up to a New Treatment Model: Whole-Body Hyperthermia for Depression
Ashley Mason, PhD, UCSF
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ABMR Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award
The Effects of Racism: Personal and Scientific Reflections
Julian Thayer, PhD, UCI
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VIDEO: Keynote Address 2
Causes and consequences of epigenetic clocks
Steve Horvath, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
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VIDEO: Keynote Address 3
Telling the future: The predictive power of indices of biological aging
Daniel Belsky, PhD, Columbia University
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VIDEO: Biomarkers of Aging, Psychological and Behavioral Influences
AvShalom Caspi, PhD (Duke) - Stability of biomarkers: Challenges & opportunities
Judith Carroll, PhD (UCLA) - Role of sleep in biological aging
Martin Picard, PhD (Columbia) - Mitochondrial variation in daily life and stress
Eli Puterman, PhD (University of British Columbia) - Exercise trials and cell aging -
VIDEO: Keynote Address 4
The Exposome and insights into the Ageotype: Biosensors and Big Data
Michael Snyder, PhD, Stanford University
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VIDEO: Special Interview 1
Psychedelic therapy, mental health, and potential implications for aging
Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, UCSF/Imperial College London
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VIDEO: Preventing Cognitive Aging and Dementia
Kristine Yaffe, PhD (UCSF) - Modifiable Risk Factors for Improving Brain Health
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD (U. Michigan) - Social engagement for preventing cognitive decline & dementia
Scott Hofer, PhD (U. Victoria) - Developing and Validating Digital Biomarkers for Dementia Prevention and Intervention -
VIDEO: Climate Matters! (Master Lecture)
Understanding climate vulnerability: Public perceptions, polarization, & opportunities
Adam Pearson, PhD (Pomona College)
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VIDEO: Panel Discussion
What is the mental health impact of climate change? How can behavioral medicine help individuals and institutions and policy change?
Donald Edmondson, PhD, MPH (Columbia)
Kristi White, PhD, LP (Hennepin Healthcare)
Alison Holman, PhD, NP (UCI)
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VIDEO: Translational Geroscience of Aging (Master Lecture)
Steve Kritchevsky, PhD, MSPH (Wake Forest) Discussant, Lis Nielsen, PhD (NIA)
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VIDEO: Parasymathetic Plenary Debate
Is vagus activity a mediator of health and aging? How can we change baseline?
Suzanne Segerstrom, PhD (U. Kentucky)
Julian Thayer, PhD (UCI)
Richard Sloan, PhD (Columbia)
Lauren Whitehurst, PhD (U. Kentucky)
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VIDEO: Mechanisms of mindfulness and compassion training
Chair: Quinn Conklin, MA (UCD)
Cheryl Giscombe, PhD (UNC) - Mindfulness, stress, and racial disparities
Linda Carlson, PhD (U. Calgary) - Mindfulness and emotion regulation in cancer survivors
David Creswell, PhD (CMU) - Acceptance and stress processes
Cliff Saron, PhD (UCD) - Attention, inflammation, and cellular aging during intensive meditation -
VIDEO: Keynote Address 5
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VIDEO: Special Interview 2
Breathing, wellbeing, and aging: A conversation with James Nestor, science journalist and author of bestseller “Breath: The new science of a lost art”
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VIDEO: Keynote Address 6