Cognitive Decline: Collateral Damage of Cardiometabolic Syndrome

Alexis M. Stranahan, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia. Her research program focuses on neuroimmune regulation of synaptic plasticity in mouse models of obesity, with the goal of elucidating mechanisms for increased rates of cognitive decline among people with obesity.

Scott Kanoski, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. His work is funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health to study higher-order neural control of food intake, interactions between diet and cognition, and control of feeding by melanin-concentrating hormone.

Eva Feldman, MD, PhD, is the Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and director of the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies and ALS Center of Excellence at Michigan Medicine. She has also been named the James W. Albers Distinguished University Professor of Neurology. Feldman’s research focuses on neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline. She also studies the neurologic complications of diabetes and obesity, and how environmental toxins affect the nervous system.