ITHACA, NY—An expert on aging and its effects on the brain will give a free public address at Ithaca College on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Dr. Gene Cohen will discuss “The Mature Mind and the Aging Brain: Positive Changes & Creativity in the Second Half of Life” at 7 p.m. in the Nabenhauer Room of the Whalen Center. His talk is sponsored by the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute Distinguished Speaker Series.

 

Cohen is the founding director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Aging and the cofounder of the Creativity Discovery Corps,whose mission is to identify and preserve the creative accomplishments and rich histories of underrecognized talented older adults. He currently serves as the director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at George Washington University, where he is also a professor of health care sciences and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

 

Among other publications, Cohen is the author of the books “The Brain in Human Aging,” “The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life,” and “The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.” He is a past president of the Gerontological Society of America, and from 1991 to 1993 he served as acting director of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He earned his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and a doctorate in gerontology from the Union Institute.

 

Cohen’s appearance is sponsored in part by Ithaca College’s Linden Center for Creativity and Aging. For more information, contact Marilyn Kinner, outreach program coordinator for the Gerontology Institute, at (607) 274-1967 or mkinner@ithaca.edu.