Cognitive enrichment early in life, as indicated by level of education, complexity of work
environment or nature of leisure activities, appears to protect against the development of …

The present study evaluates the effect of cognitive training, of psychoeducational training
and of physical training on cognitive functioning, physical functioning, physical health …

Aging patterns in WAIS-R Block Design Test (BDT) were examined cross-sectionally and
longitudinally. One sample (35–80 years, n= 1000) was assessed in 1988–1990 and five …

The Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) is a large-scale investigation of cognitive
aging from middle to later age. The intended sample of 1440 twin subjects is recruited from …

Wholistic perspectives on differential change focus on multiple-indicator information at a
person level. They supplement the modeling of average trajectories at a variable level. The …

Psychological stress and environmental pollution are frequently associated to urban
environment and oxidative stress (OxS). Likewise, OxS is a risk factor for cognitive …

In this chapter, we propose a coconstructionist model for the study of development within the
Third Age using cognition as the sample case. In the first part of the chapter, we focus on the …

Background: Studies investigating the association between cardiovascular risk factors and
cognitive decline report discrepant outcomes. The co-twin control method improves on …

Publisher Summary Speed of processing, whether as a measured variable or an inferred
latent variable, accounted for a large portion of the age-related variance in a wide range of …

Middle age is a particularly important developmental period currently in our society given
that the baby-boomer cohorts (b1946–1964), the largest birth cohort in US history, are now …