The RAND Summer Institute (RSI) is comprised of conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population. The primary aim of the RSI is to expose scholars interested in the study of aging to a wide range of research being conducted in fields beyond their own specialties. This video session is from the 25th Annual RAND Summer Institute, held July 9–12, 2018, in Santa Monica, California.

“No matter how immersed one is in the field, what fundamentally causes the disease continues to be a matter of debate.” - Ken Kosik

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Dr. Kenneth S. Kosik talks about the largest family in the world with familial Alzheimer's Disease at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.

A ‘druggable’ mechanism of tau protein pathology could lead to new treatment for some of our most devastating neurodegenerative diseases.

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Professors Ken Kosik (Neuroscience) and Kim Yasuda (Arts) join visiting artist Cristina Pato (of the Grammy-winning Silk Road Ensemble) to introduce students to the cross-disciplinary field of memory studies and demonstrate how different disciplines approach common questions.

Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease begin to unravel how the protein tau transitions from soluble liquid to solid fibrous tangle.

Nobel-prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote of a mythical town in the middle of the jungle whose residents suffer from a mysterious affliction that erases their memories.

I learned how what seems impossibly remote, years away, suddenly arrives one day.

Join investigators as they untangle the cause of Alzheimer’s and race to develop a cure.