ASA - American Society on Aging

MindAlert
Sponsored by the MetLife Foundation

Past MindAlert Lectures

Since 2001, the MindAlert program has sponsored a Special Lecture by a well-known researcher in the field of mental fitness and aging. Following the lecture, ASA publishes a booklet containing the transcript of the lecture, as well as descriptions of the best-practices programs honored with the year's MindAlert Awards.

Click on the cover images below to download any of the past MindAlert booklets.

2009 MindAlert Booklet Sparking the Brain with Exercise: How Physical Fitness Affects Mental Fitness Lecture by John J. Ratey, MD (PDF 3,632KB)	2008 MindAlert Booklet Intervening with Late-Life Cognition: Lessons from the ACTIVE Study Lecture by Michael Marsiske (PDF 31,632KB)
2007 MindAlert Booklet Art and Dementia Lecture by Bruce L. Miller, MD (PDF)	2006 MindAlert Booklet Benefits of Memory Priming: Effects of Guided Autobiography and Reminiscence Lecture by James E. Birren (PDF, 154KB)
2005 MindAlert Booklet Intellectual Functioning in Adulthood: Growth, Maintenance, Decline and Modifiability Lecture by K. Warner Schaie And Sherry L. Willis (PDF, 2345KB)	2004 MindAlert Booklet Uniting the Heart and Mind: Human Development in the Second Half of Life Lecture by Gene D. Cohen (PDF, 3055KB)
2003 MindAlert Booklet Centenarians: Lessons on Living Long and Living Well Lecture by Thomas Perls (PDF, 950KB)	2002 MindAlert Booklet Brain Health From 1 to 100 Lecture by Paul Nussbaum (PDF, 500KB)
2001 MindAlert Booklet Good News About the Aging Brain! Lectures by Marian Diamond and Arnold Scheibel (PDF, 2900KB)