Brain age and other bodily 'ages': implications for neuropsychiatry

JH Cole, RE Marioni, SE Harris, IJ Deary - Molecular psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
As our brains age, we tend to experience cognitive decline and are at greater risk of
neurodegenerative disease and dementia. Symptoms of chronic neuropsychiatric diseases …

Get a grip: individual variations in grip strength are a marker of brain health

RG Carson - Neurobiology of aging, 2018 - Elsevier
Demonstrations that grip strength has predictive power in relation to a range of health
conditions—even when these are assessed decades later—has motivated claims that hand …

Association of age-related hearing loss with cognitive function, cognitive impairment, and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DG Loughrey, ME Kelly, GA Kelley… - … –head & neck …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Epidemiologic research on the possible link between age-related hearing loss
(ARHL) and cognitive decline and dementia has produced inconsistent results. Clarifying …

Modeling the rate of senescence: can estimated biological age predict mortality more accurately than chronological age?

ME Levine - Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biomedical …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Biological age (BA) is useful for examining differences in aging rates. Nevertheless, little
consensus exists regarding optimal methods for calculating BA. The aim of this study is to …

Biomarker signatures of aging

P Sebastiani, B Thyagarajan, F Sun, N Schupf… - Aging cell, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Because people age differently, age is not a sufficient marker of susceptibility to disabilities,
morbidities, and mortality. We measured nineteen blood biomarkers that include …

Biological age in healthy elderly predicts aging-related diseases including dementia

JW Wu, A Yaqub, Y Ma, W Koudstaal, A Hofman… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Application of biological age as a measure of an individual´ s health status offers new
perspectives into extension of both lifespan and healthspan. While algorithms predicting …

Grip strength and the risk of cognitive decline and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies

M Cui, S Zhang, Y Liu, X Gang, G Wang - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: Loss of grip strength and cognitive impairment are prevalent in the elderly, and
they may share the pathogenesis in common. Several original studies have investigated the …

A new approach to the concept and computation of biological age

P Klemera, S Doubal - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2006 - Elsevier
The lack of exact definition of the concept of biological age (BA) is a typical feature of works
concerning BA. That is why comparison of results of various published methods makes little …

Cortical neuroplasticity and cognitive function in early-stage, mild-moderate hearing loss: evidence of neurocognitive benefit from hearing aid use

HA Glick, A Sharma - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is associated with cognitive decline as well as structural
and functional brain changes. However, the mechanisms underlying neurocognitive deficits …

Handgrip strength and cognitive decline in older Mexican Americans

A Alfaro-Acha, SA Snih, MA Raji, YF Kuo… - The Journals of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Background. Cognitive decline and dementia are associated with disability and premature
death in old age. We examined whether low handgrip strength predicts subsequent …