{"id":909,"date":"2017-03-31T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=909"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:07:19","slug":"karin-schon","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/profile\/karin-schon\/","title":{"rendered":"Karin Schon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Schon\u2019s research interests currently focus on investigating the role of aerobic exercise as a modulator of cognitive function and brain health in aging and Alzheimer\u2019s disease in humans. She uses functional and structural MRI, behavioral and exercise physiology methods, and biomarker assays.<\/p>\n<p>Additional research topics include: Cognitive neuroimaging of human memory, brain plasticity, medial temporal lobe memory system, exercise neuroscience, and healthy aging, using a variety of methods including cognitive testing, neuropsychology, functional and structural MRI, high-resolution fMRI, exercise testing and training, and biomarker assays (e.g. neurotrophins, such as BDNF, IGF-1, and VEGF).<\/p>\n<a href='http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainplasticity\/' class='button '>Schon Lab<\/a>\n<a href='https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=aKTWP_sAAAAJ&#038;hl=en&#038;oi=ao' class='button '>Google Scholar<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":12181,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/909\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}