David Madden Quotations

We feel that results of our tests represent an important first step understanding the complex relationships between aging, brain structure and cognitive performance. The brain can be very plastic in how it re-directs pathways and functions in response to circumstances.

We didn't want to make things up. We didn't want to turn this experience into something that was melodrama ... to 'Hollywood' them up.

Based on past studies, we expected greater activation in the frontal and parietal regions in the older adults, especially when top-down attention was required. We also hypothesized that an age-related related decline in the white matter integrity in the frontal part of the brain would correlate with changes in gray matter activation.

If the state's legislation is changed, I will work with it. The last two members I have appointed would have had been easily accepted by the council.

It appears that age-related cognitive changes are the result of combined influences on the gray matter and the white matter.

We need a governor who will function and treat his position as a job. It's not the position you take on issues, it's about being able to get things done.

We have only had small problems. A few teachers have had problems with their new phone numbers...things like that. The teachers and students have both said how much they like it here. We wouldn't have been able to open this building without a great effort from the managerial and custodial staff. They have done a wonderful job and I want to thank them for that. It has been a good process.

There has been plenty of opportunity for students to find out were they are going under no stress. We haven't had any problems at all, and I have thanked the students for that.

There has been a lot of foresight and planning to help with the smooth move into the building.

The transition has been remarkably smooth. The kids have had plenty of opportunity to communicate with the teachers.

You need the years to sort of let the emotion go, to be sensitive, but to let the culture as a whole experience it fresh without it being exploitive. If you tried to do it in 2002, it would have been too raw, too fresh.

I have walked hundreds of kids to their classrooms the first week. But the second week, we are back in business.