Keeping Your Edge: The Neuroscience of Smart Ageing.

Ian Robertson will review the evidence in support of the view that adult brain ageing (ages 30 plus) can and should be regarded as a journey of maturation rather than one of inexorable decline. Setting aside disease, which becomes more common with age, there is nothing inevitable about cognitive decline, particularly in educated people with a healthy lifestyle.

Bio.

Ian Robertson is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. Ian was Founding Director of the Institute of Neuroscience at TCD and of the Global Brain Health Institute – a fellowship programme run jointly with University of California at San Francisco. His 600+ scientific papers on the neuropsychology of attention, emotion and neuroplasticity have been cited more than 41,000 times. A trained Clinical Psychologist, he has written six best-selling books for the general reader, the most recent being How Confidence Works: the new science of self-belief. In 2024 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science and an honorary MD by Trinity College Dublin. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of Academia Europaea