Lunch ticket - SEP
Current members get a discount on their lunch price.
All 2025 memberships ended on December 31, 2025.
We look forward to seeing you at lunch!
Houston Aggie Women Monthly Networking Lunch
September 8, 2026 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Maggiano's Little Italy
2019 Post Oak Blvd.; Houston, Texas 77056
2nd floor banquet room - Piedmont
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Jessica Bernard
TAMU College of Arts & Sciences
Professor, Ella McFadden Endowed Professorship in Liberal Arts, APS Fellow
Dr. Bernard’s work focuses on understanding how cognitive and motor behavior changes as we get older. She does so in those that are aging well (cognitively normal), and increasingly, she is also exploring what happens in the case of age-related neurodegenerative disease. She is particularly interested in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and subjective cognitive decline (SCD), both of which can be considered early, preclinical stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Notably, in those with MCI and SCD, not all individuals go on and progress to Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Many individuals remain stable or even improve. Dr. Bernard is particularly interested in what differentiates these individuals, and in turn, how we can develop novel interventions to improve function and quality of life in advanced age. Across her research, she is particularly interested in the cerebellum. The cerebellum is located at the bottom and back of the brain, and is important for coordinating motor behavior as well as our thoughts. She is the director of the Lifespan Cognitive and Motor Neuroimaging Laboratory, where she and her lab team work to better characterize cerebellar changes over time with age, in conjunction with understanding how the cerebellum interacts with the rest of the brain. Dr. Bernard uses multimodal neuroimaging, behavioral measures, and non-invasive brain stimulation in her research. Further, Dr. Bernard has been increasingly focused on how the hormonal experiences of females (pregnancy, perimenopause) impact brain network organization and impact function. She incorporates measures of hormonal fluctuations in her research to investigate how hormonal changes impact the brain. In parallel to this work on aging and age-related disease, Dr. Bernard maintains collaborations with colleagues investigating cerebellar contributions to psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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