David Madden Quotes (8 Quotes)

We feel that results of our tests represent an important first step understanding the complex relationships between aging, brain structure and cognitive performance. The brain can be very plastic in how it re-directs pathways and functions in response to circumstances.

It appears that age-related cognitive changes are the result of combined influences on the gray matter and the white matter.

There has been plenty of opportunity for students to find out were they are going under no stress. We haven't had any problems at all, and I have thanked the students for that.

The transition has been remarkably smooth. The kids have had plenty of opportunity to communicate with the teachers.

I have walked hundreds of kids to their classrooms the first week. But the second week, we are back in business.

We didn't want to make things up. We didn't want to turn this experience into something that was melodrama ... to 'Hollywood' them up.

We have only had small problems. A few teachers have had problems with their new phone numbers...things like that. The teachers and students have both said how much they like it here. We wouldn't have been able to open this building without a great effort from the managerial and custodial staff. They have done a wonderful job and I want to thank them for that. It has been a good process.

Based on past studies, we expected greater activation in the frontal and parietal regions in the older adults, especially when top-down attention was required. We also hypothesized that an age-related related decline in the white matter integrity in the frontal part of the brain would correlate with changes in gray matter activation.