Who would you want your financial advisor to contact if he thinks you’re being scammed or just slipping in cognitive ability? With the increase in elder financial abuse, more firms are rolling out an emergency contact form to have on file if something seems amiss.
Dan Weiner wins Angier Prize
Researchers Say More Needs to Be Done Analyzing Effectiveness of Brain Games
Serving the Needs of Aging Investors
Professor Samanez-Larkin addresses what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we can do about protecting the financial well being and reducing the fraud susceptibility of aging investors. He further discusses the front-line neuroscience that is changing how we understand the issues facing senior investors at the Senior Investors Forum on Serving the Needs of Our Aging Investors in Chicago hosted by SIFMA.
Best foot upward
New NIA grant funded to study dopamine and decision making
New R01 grant funded to examine how individual and age differences in dopamine receptors, release, and transporters are related to individual differences in decision making. The project is a collaboration between the Zald lab at Vanderbilt and the Samanez-Larkin lab at Yale.
Scammers take aim at aging population
Lab research at RLDM 2013
Lab collaborator (and future doctor!) Jacob Young presents at the inaugural Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2013) at Princeton University.
Lab opens in SSS at Yale
The Motivated Cognition and Aging Brain Lab opened in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona (SSS) Hall.