The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association speaker on Wednesday, January 3 will be Susan Masino, Neuroscientist and Professor of Applied Science at Trinity College. Her topic will be “Why Our Brains Need Wildlands.”
Protecting our brains and protecting nature are both vitally important for our long-term wellbeing.
Professor Susan A. Masino will share how these two goals are mutually reinforcing, and how common-sense actions can benefit individual and collective health.
The growing evidence for the brain health benefits of nature span across all age groups and levels of ability, and range among beneficial changes in brain activity, improved cognition and emotional regulation, and decreased depression and anxiety.
The good news is these benefits do not require a wilderness trip –they can be achieved right here in our communities. In addition to practical information on brain health, the presentation will feature local data and implications of the recent regional report titled “Wildlands in New England: Past, Present, and Future” and will underscore how history, science, and fiscal responsibility can work together to inform public policies.
Susan A. Masino is the Vernon D. Roosa Professor of Applied Science at Trinity College, a member of the Science and Technology Working Group of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change (GC3), the Hartford County Coordinator for the Old Growth Forest Network, and recently a Charles Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at Harvard University.
Her laboratory-based research focuses on mechanisms of brain health and disease, and her scholarship outside the lab focuses on nature and brain health, and the critical role of climate-regulating ecosystems.Our next speaker,on January 10, will beRick Lawrence, Ph.D., on “From Search to Generative AI: How ChatGPT changed the World in a few months.”
The talk is in person at First Presbyterian Church, 1 West Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT.
The program will also be shown on Webinar: https://bit.ly/30IBj21
RMA speaker presentations are presented as a community service at no cost to in-person or Zoom attendees, regardless of gender. The programs begin at 11:00am. Plan your arrival so you are seated by that time. They conclude at 12:00 noon.