Environmental enrichment reverses histone methylation changes in the aged hippocampus and restores age-related memory deficits

SJ Morse, AA Butler, RL Davis, IJ Soller, FD Lubin - Biology, 2015 - mdpi.com
A decline in long-term memory (LTM) formation is a common feature of the normal aging
process, which corresponds with abnormal expression of memory-related genes in the aged …

Late-life environmental enrichment induces acetylation events and nuclear factor κB-dependent regulations in the hippocampus of aged rats showing improved …

R Neidl, A Schneider, O Bousiges… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Aging weakens memory functions. Exposing healthy rodents or pathological rodent models
to environmental enrichment (EE) housing improves their cognitive functions by changing …

Increase in hippocampal histone H3K9me3 is negatively correlated with memory in old male mice

A Kushwaha, MK Thakur - Biogerontology, 2020 - Springer
With advancing age, memory declines through different mechanisms including
dysregulation of expression of synaptic plasticity genes in hippocampus. Increasing …

Age-related memory impairment is associated with disrupted multivariate epigenetic coordination in the hippocampus

JF Castellano, BR Fletcher, B Kelley-Bell, DH Kim… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Mounting evidence linking epigenetic regulation to memory-related synaptic plasticity raises
the possibility that altered chromatin modification dynamics might contribute to age …

Environmental enrichment preserves a young DNA methylation landscape in the aged mouse hippocampus

S Zocher, RW Overall, M Lesche, A Dahl… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The decline of brain function during aging is associated with epigenetic changes, including
DNA methylation. Lifestyle interventions can improve brain function during aging, but their …

H3K9me3 inhibition improves memory, promotes spine formation, and increases BDNF levels in the aged hippocampus

S Snigdha, GA Prieto, A Petrosyan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
An increasing number of studies show that an altered epigenetic landscape may cause
impairments in regulation of learning and memory-related genes within the aged …

Hippocampal DNA methylation, epigenetic age, and spatial memory performance in young and old rats

P Chiavellini, M Lehmann… - The Journals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In humans and rats, aging is associated with a progressive deterioration of spatial learning
and memory. These functional alterations are correlated with morphological and molecular …

Altered histone acetylation is associated with age-dependent memory impairment in mice

S Peleg, F Sananbenesi, A Zovoilis, S Burkhardt… - science, 2010 - science.org
As the human life span increases, the number of people suffering from cognitive decline is
rising dramatically. The mechanisms underlying age-associated memory impairment are …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental enrichment: aging and memory

TR Patel - The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A decline in learning and memory is a feature of the normal aging process and associated
with neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Moreover …

Epigenetic contributions to cognitive aging: disentangling mindspan and lifespan

AM Spiegel, AS Sewal, PR Rapp - Learning & Memory, 2014 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Epigenetic modifications of chromatin structure provide a mechanistic interface for gene–
environment interactions that impact the individualization of health trajectories across the …