Dr. Idaly Velez-Uribe received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis and concentration in Neuropsychology at Florida Atlantic University. She is currently doing postdoctoral fellow training in neurocognitive measures at FAU and the Wein Center for Alzheimer’s Disease at Mount Sinai Medical within the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Her research is focused on how diverse factors influence brain plasticity across the lifespan. She seeks to investigate how variables such as bilingualism, biculturalism, ethnicity, and immigration interact with biology and other environmental factors and influence brain biomarkers, cognition, and behavior and whether that influence extends through an individual’s lifespan to the point of altering the course of neurodegeneration in aging, especially in culturally diverse populations. She has also analyzed brain differences in the comprehension and expression of emotions between the two languages of bilingual individuals using electroencephalographic measures.
Wien Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Florida Atlantic University