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Anne Maass, visiting professor at the University of Magdeburg, uses multimodal imaging techniques in her research to better understand how the brain and its function change with age and in age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. Using high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging, she examines memory networks in the medial temporal lobe and their plasticity in old age. During her postdoctoral period at UC Berkeley, she combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and molecular imaging, which makes it possible to visualize Alzheimer proteins in the brain. In doing so, she investigated how tau and amyloid-beta proteins, which accumulate in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, affect brain function and memory networks. She is currently continuing this research and is trying to understand, with the help of multimodal imaging techniques, what leads to the spread of Alzheimer pathology and why some people are resistant to it (do not develop deposits) or others remain cognitively unaffected despite pathology (are resilient). In the Collaborative Research Center SFB1436, she is building a longitudinal aging cohort to investigate which factors lead to successful cognitive aging or 'SuperAging'.

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