Register now to attend the fall kickoff of the Innovations in Healthy Aging Lecture Series
Register now to attend the fall kickoff of Innovations in Healthy Aging Lecture Series: Big Smile, Small Self: Effects of Awe on Healthy Aging on Sept. 21.
Join us virtually on Zoom or in person at the Health Sciences Innovation Building, 1670 E. Drachman St., Tucson, AZ 85721
Awe is a positive emotion associated with wonder, creativity, and generosity. Virginia Sturm, PhD, will describe the mental and physical health benefits of awe and summarize a study she conducted on "awe walks" for older adults.
Dr. Sturm is the John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation Endowed Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is an associate professor in the departments of neurology and psychiatry and the director of the Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory which is located in the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and affiliated with the UCSF Center for Psychophysiology and Behavior. After undergraduate work at Georgetown University, she received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF in neuropsychology. Her research focuses on identifying the neural systems that support emotion and social behavior in neurodegenerative disease and neurodevelopmental disorders.
This free public lecture will be followed by an in-person reception. Complimentary parking will be available in lot 2012, adjacent to the Health Sciences Innovation Building.