dr. storey landis and dr. richard hotus of the national institute on ageing, also here to answer questions. on the second panel, we'll hear from dr. michael herd, the researcher who wrote the landmark study i mentioned earlier. and we'll be joined by two individuals personally impacted by this devastating disease. finally, former congressman dennis moore of kansas is here today as a long-time colleague and friend of his, i was saddened to learn of his alzheimer's diagnosis so soon after his retirement from the house of representatives. it's no surprise to anyone who knows him, though, that his first instinct was to educate others and continue serving the public through advocacy and education. so i look forward to hearing from each of our distinguished experts, and before we turn to the first panel, i'll yield to senator moran. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i'll make my remarks relatively brief because i would not want to detain or delay the testimony of our distinguished experts. but i very much apprec

dr. landis co-leads for us is a great example of how to achieve that. maybe you can say a word about how that is coming together that reflects a change in the dynamics. >> it's very clear that we made excellent advances in understanding brain structure. we know we have crude wiring diagrams for the brain but we don't know how information is processed along those wires, how the vision of a rose actually gets translated through many, many different way stations in the brain to recognition that this is a rose and the expectation it will smell sweet. what we really need to do to understand how the circuits work, the organization of brain, brain cells is to bring together neuroscientists, computational people, physicists, chemists, engineers to work together develop tools that we can then apply to answer those questions about how brain circuits really function and that obviously starts with normal brain circuits but what we learn from understanding normal brain function will have significant implications for diseases like alzheimer's, other kinds of dementia

dr. story landis from the institute of neurological disorders and hodis and dr.ichard also here to answer questions. questions. on the second panel, we'll hear from dr. michael herd, the researcher who wrote the landmark study i mentioned earlier. and we'll be joined by two individuals personally impacted by this devastating disease. finally, former congressman dennis moore of kansas is here today as a long-time colleague and friend of his, i was saddened to learn of his alzheimer's diagnosis so soon after his retirement from the house of representatives. it's no surprise to anyone who knows him, though, that his first instinct was to educate others and continue serving the public through advocacy and education. so i look forward to hearing from each of our distinguished experts, and before we turn to the first panel, i'll yield to senator moran. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i'll make my remarks relatively brief because i would not want to detain or delay the testimony of our distinguished experts. but i very much appreciate what you just said and your w