Preventive effects of regular physical exercise against cognitive decline and the risk of dementia with age advancement

T Paillard - Sports medicine-open, 2015 - Springer
With age advancement, cognitive function is impaired and the risk of dementia is increased
under the influence of normal or pathological cortical and subcortical neuronal alterations …

The stability of intelligence from childhood to old age

IJ Deary - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Intelligence is an important human trait on which people differ. Few studies have examined
the stability of intelligence differences from childhood or youth to older age using the same …

Impact of obstructive sleep apnea on cognitive and motor functions in Parkinson's disease

M Elfil, EI Bahbah, MM Attia, M Eldokmak… - Movement …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that presents
with motor and non‐motor manifestations. Amongst the non‐motor features, various forms of …

Is hypertension associated with an accelerated aging of the brain?

C Tzourio, S Laurent, S Debette - Hypertension, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Tzourio et al Hypertension and Brain Aging 895 neurodegenerative lesions. The Nun study
was one of the first to highlight this interaction between neurodegenerative and vascular …

Leisure-time physical activity associates with cognitive decline: The Northern Manhattan Study

JZ Willey, H Gardener, MR Caunca, YP Moon, C Dong… - Neurology, 2016 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: Because leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) is protective against incident
dementia, we hypothesized that LTPA is protective against decline in domain-specific …

Leisure-activity participation to prevent later-life cognitive decline: a systematic review

M Fallahpour, L Borell, M Luborsky… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: A systematic literature review was conducted to characterise the current state of
knowledge concerning the definition, categorisation, and operationalisation of leisure …

The effects of education on cognition in older age: Evidence from genotyped Siblings

J Fletcher, M Topping, F Zheng, Q Lu - Social Science & Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
A growing literature has sought to tie educational attainment with later-life cognition and
Alzheimer's disease outcomes. This paper leverages sibling comparisons in educational …

[PDF][PDF] Tobacco use and dementia

World Health Organization - 2014 - apps.who.int
Dementia is a syndrome resulting from disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or
progressive nature; it involves a decline in thinking beyond what is normally expected from …

Impact of differential attrition on the association of education with cognitive change over 20 years of follow-up: the ARIC neurocognitive study

RF Gottesman, AM Rawlings… - American journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Studies of long-term cognitive change should account for the potential effects of education
on the outcome, since some studies have demonstrated an association of education with …

The genetics of cognitive ability and cognitive ageing in healthy older people

SE Harris, IJ Deary - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
Determining the genetic influences on cognitive ability in old age and in cognitive ageing
are important areas of research in an increasingly ageing society. Heritability studies …