"The Biological Clock: When Parkinson's Meets the Aging Brain" by Dr L Shih

Dr Ludy Shih explores similarities between brain ageing and Parkinson’s, and how age-related changes in other body systems impact patients.

In this talk, Dr. Ludy Shih will explore the ways in which cellular and molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease models are similar to and different from currently understood mechanisms of brain aging. We will also explore how non-neurologic physiologic systems undergo aging and how this can impact people living with Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Ludy Shih is the Clinical Director of the Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

She is a clinical investigator, testing new therapies in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and essential tremor and studying brain aging in the Framingham Heart Study, the longest-running NIH funded study of individuals living in the town of Framingham, Massachusetts, spanning more than 3 generations of families.