Lecturer

Helena Chui, MD, Chair and Professor of Neurology. Dr. Chui is internationally recognized for her research in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular cognitive impairment. She is the principal investigator for the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, as well as a multi-institutional program project on vascular dementia. Dr. Chui is the author of over 120 publications and has served on the editorial board for Stroke, Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders, and Archives of Neurology.
During the past 30 years, her research interests have focused on vascular contributions to cognitive impairment in late life. She has been particularly interested in nonocclusive pathways leading from vascular risk factors to vascular brain injury or Alzheimer’s pathology.

Learn from the Lecture

After giving a brief overview of the memory system, Dr. Chui discusses the spectrum of forgetfulness – from normal aging to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia – and an accompanying range of underlying causes. She concludes her talk with a guide for prevention and treatment.