A recent USC Today post mentions associate professor of gerontology Andrei Irimia for his use of artificial intelligence to visualize the intricacies of brain tissue. The post Brilliant minds, healthy brains appeared first on USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

The human brain holds many clues about a person’s long-term health — in fact, research shows that a person’s brain age is a more useful and accurate predictor of health risks and future disease than their birthdate. A new artificial intelligence model that analyzes MRI

Assistant Professor Andrei Irimia An anonymous family donated $150,000 to support the research efforts of Associate Professor Andrei Irimia after hearing him present his work on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its link to the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life. The funds

Some of the lowest rates of heart and brain disease ever reported by science are found among Indigenous communities inhabiting the tropical forests of lowland Bolivia. New USC research on two of these societies, the Tsimané and Mosetén, suggests that there are optimal levels of food consumption

Neuroscience lies at the intersection of a variety of different fields, including biology, psychology, philosophy and even history, and studying the workings of the brain is useful as a context for understanding many of the larger issues in medicine and society, says Ammar Dharani, a

Assistant Professor of Gerontology Andrei Irimia joins Professor George Shannon on the most recent episode of Lessons in Lifespan Health to discuss brain imaging and brain health, including his work to determine who is most at risk for Alzheimer’s disease after suffering a concussion or

A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy than their peers in higher-income nations. The decrease in their brain volumes with age is 70% slower than in American and European populations. Accelerated brain

Currently, more than 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to rise to 16 million by the year 2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. It’s now the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., killing more people each year

U.S. News & World Report featured a study by Margaret Gatz, Andrei Irimia and colleagues that found very low rates of dementia in two Amazonian indigenous groups. “Something about the pre-industrial subsistence lifestyle appears to protect older Tsimane and Moseten from dementia,” said Gatz, the

As scientists around the world seek for solutions for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study reveals that two indigenous groups in the Bolivian Amazon have among the lowest rates of dementia in the world. An international team of researchers found among older Tsimane and Moseten people,