Dr. Eileen Graham and Dr. Dan Mroczek. are faculty at Northwestern University with interests in how personality factors influence physical and cognitive health over the life course.

In this episode we discuss what’s known about the association between personality type and cognitive function.  Further, the idea of resilience—or what protects the cognition of individuals with a high level of neuropathology associated with cognitive decline—might have important implications for dementia prevention.  Our guests are Dr. Eileen Graham and Dr. Dan Mroczek. Drs. Graham and Mroczek are both faculty at Northwestern University with interests in how personality factors influence physical and cognitive health over the life course.

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