Public Health and Health Professions
Porges Lab
Led by Eric S Porges · Clinical and Health Psychology
What we study
The Porges Lab studies how aging affects brain function and cognition, using tools like brain scans, cognitive tests, and metabolic studies. They explore how factors like alcohol use, HIV, and obesity impact aging, using methods like vagus nerve stimulation.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Effect of Alcohol Reduction and Probiotic Interventions on Cognition and Brain Glucose Metabolism in Normal Aging Adults who are…
This study examines how alcohol reduction and probiotics affect brain function and cognition in aging adults.
WISE II - Obesity and Type-2 Diabetes: Bariatric Surgery Effects on Brain Function
This project investigates how bariatric surgery impacts brain function in people with obesity and type-2 diabetes.
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Universal Edited MRS at 3T
This research uses magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study brain metabolism in aging adults.
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Recent papers, explained
- Associations between cannabis use, cannabis use motivations and past year polysubstance use among people living with HIV in Florida
2026 · AIDS Care
Looks at how cannabis use and motivations link to drug use in HIV patients in Florida.
- Validating a New‐Generation Wrist‐Worn Alcohol Biosensor Among Persons With and Without HIV in a Laboratory Setting
2026 · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
Validates a wrist-worn alcohol sensor in people with and without HIV in a lab setting.
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- Your brain doesn’t look a day past 70! Cross-sectional associations with brain-predicted age in the cognitively-intact oldest-old
2025 · GeroScience
Checks if aging risks affect brain aging in very old people without dementia.
- Resting-state functional connectivity in HIV – Findings from the ENIGMA HIV working group
2025 · Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
Compares brain connections in HIV patients and healthy people, linking them to thinking.
- Cannabis use, microbial diversity and Dialister abundance in older adults with HIV : A cross‐sectional study
2025 · HIV Medicine
Tests whether cannabis use affects gut bacteria in older HIV patients.
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How to reach out
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