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.
Lab research highlighted in APS Observer
Why Older Minds Make Better Decisions
The decisions we make throughout our lives about money, work, health and relationships have a tremendous influence on how we age. And as the number of older people increases, not only in the United States but around the world, the decisions seniors make and how they make them will have a significant impact on global economies and societies.
White-matter pathways affect decision making as we age
A brain-mapping study, published in the April 11 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, has found that people’s ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways that connect an area in the cerebral cortex called the medial prefrontal cortex with two other areas deeper in the brain.
Grow up: Be mature about your money
What makes some people thrifty savers and others shrewd investors? Experts find it's probably not just personality or intelligence that influences how you handle money and investing. Your age and the economic conditions prevailing during your various life stages shape how you perceive financial matters, and learning about your age bias may help you overcome it.
Samanez-Larkin Recognized as Rising Star
Why It Takes So Long to Decide
One of the surest ways to frustrate my mother was for her to accompany Grandma Ethel, then in her mid-90s, to her favorite delicatessen near the assisted-living facility she called home in Chicago. It had a menu as big as a billboard, and Ethel relished the chance to consider almost every dish before she settled on an old favorite, no matter how long the process took.
