Nathan Spreng, PhD, associate proessor of neurology and neurosurgery and director of the Laboratory of Brtain and Cognition, both at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The work was supported in part by the Elder Justice Foundation. His study, “Financial Exploitation Is Associated With Structural and Functional Brain Differences In Healthy Older Adults,” was published in the March 28, 2017, issue of The Journals of Gerontology.
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