Tara Keck | |
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| Born | November 26, 1978 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Boston University |
| Known for | Synaptic plasticity in vivo |
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| Institutions | Professor of Neuroscience at University College London |
| Website | iris.ucl.ac.uk |
Tara Keck (born November 26, 1978, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American-British neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, at University College London working in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology. She is the Vice-Dean International for the Faculty of Life Sciences.[1][2] She studies experience-dependent synaptic plasticity, its effect on behaviour[3] and how it changes during ageing and age-related diseases.[4] She has worked in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund on approaches for healthy ageing.[5][6] Her recent work has focused on loneliness in older people, with a focus on gender.[7][8][9][10] She was named a UNFPA Generations and Gender Fellow in 2022.[11]
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- ^ "Failures of neuronal homeostasis in Alzheimer's Disease and ageing | British Council". www.britishcouncil.org.il. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
- ^ "Healthy Ageing Centres are important for older people in Bosnia and Herzegovina". UNFPA Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
- ^ "Older people regularly visiting healthy ageing centres live healthier, longer lives, new study finds". UNFPA Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
- ^ "Providing support for day-to-day tasks most effective in reducing loneliness in older people, new UNFPA study finds". UNFPA EECA. 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ UCL (28 January 2022). "Support for day-to-day tasks could reduce loneliness in older people". UCL News. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ "Support for day-to-day tasks could reducing loneliness in older people". Mirage News. 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ London, University College. "Support for day-to-day tasks could reduce loneliness in older people". medicalxpress.com. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ "Our Board". HARVARD W3D. Retrieved 2022-06-14.