Marc Milstein, PhD, author of The Age-Proof Brain in conversation with Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, Professor In-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA and a geriatric integrative psychiatrist.

When it comes to keeping your brain in tip-top shape, you aren't limited to crossword puzzles, brain games, and Sudoku. The keys to keeping your mind sharp are already in your hands: eleven simple but powerful lifestyle factors often have a greater impact on our health than our genetics. In The Age-Proof Brain, scientist and popular speaker, Dr. Marc Milstein shares new, breakthrough science-support strategies to:

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Please join us on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm to celebrate the launch of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises written by the Berggruen Institute’s COO and Senior Vice President, Nils Gilman, and Associate Director, Planetary Program, Jonathan Blake.

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As the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Two new museums — the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum — are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. In 2021, he received France’s highest award, The Legion of Honor.

Secretary Bunch will be joined in conversation by Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA distinguished professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History.

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Sara Manning Peskin, MD, MS in conversation with Jennifer Kruse, MD

A Molecule Away from Madness – Tales of the Hijacked Brain is an unputdownable journey into the deepest mysteries of our brains that are the most complex machines known to humankind. But they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. In A Molecule Away from Madness, Dr. Sara Manning Peskin shares gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake.

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