Stuart Macdonald
Associate Professor
Psychology
University of Victoria
Canada
Biography
Dr. Stuart MacDonald is a Associate Professor at The University Of Victoria.
Research Interest
My research is conducted primarily within two research traditions: individual differences in cognitive aging and the cognitive neuroscience of aging. I examine patterns and predictors of cognitive decline in the healthy elderly, as well as for the developmental transition between primary and secondary aging (e.g., accelerated memory loss due to morbidity). In particular, I am interested in the early identification of risk factors (genetic, biological, psychological) that foreshadow cognitive impairment associated with age, dementia onset, and subsequent death. Recent avenues of investigation have employed fMRI to identify brain correlates of performance variability in episodic memory, as well as longitudinal data and various statistical techniques for the analysis of change. For more information, see my Expertise Database profile. Interests Lifespan development
