Education and cognitive functioning across the life span

M Lövdén, L Fratiglioni, MM Glymour… - … science in the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive abilities are important predictors of educational and occupational performance,
socioeconomic attainment, health, and longevity. Declines in cognitive abilities are linked to …

Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

R Cabeza, M Albert, S Belleville, FIM Craik… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Cognitive ageing research examines the cognitive abilities that are preserved and/or those
that decline with advanced age. There is great individual variability in cognitive ageing …

Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions

J Veríssimo, P Verhaeghen, N Goldman… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Cognition in multiple sclerosis: State of the field and priorities for the future

JF Sumowski, R Benedict, C Enzinger, M Filippi… - Neurology, 2018 - AAN Enterprises
Cognitive decline is recognized as a prevalent and debilitating symptom of multiple sclerosis
(MS), especially deficits in episodic memory and processing speed. The field aims to (1) …

Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition

KB Walhovd, M Lövden, AM Fjell - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Modifiable risk and protective factors for boosting brain and cognitive development and
preventing neurodegeneration and cognitive decline are embraced in neuroimaging …

Functional aging in male C57BL/6J mice across the life-span: a systematic behavioral analysis of motor, emotional, and memory function to define an aging phenotype

S Yanai, S Endo - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aging is characterized generally by progressive and overall physiological decline of
functions and is observed in all animals. A long line of evidence has established the …

Age-related changes in 1/f neural electrophysiological noise

B Voytek, MA Kramer, J Case, KQ Lepage… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Aging is associated with performance decrements across multiple cognitive domains. The
neural noise hypothesis, a dominant view of the basis of this decline, posits that aging is …

Brain reserve, cognitive reserve, compensation, and maintenance: operationalization, validity, and mechanisms of cognitive resilience

Y Stern, CA Barnes, C Grady, RN Jones, N Raz - Neurobiology of aging, 2019 - Elsevier
Significant individual differences in the trajectories of cognitive aging and in age-related
changes of brain structure and function have been reported in the past half-century. In some …

How does it STAC up? Revisiting the scaffolding theory of aging and cognition

PA Reuter-Lorenz, DC Park - Neuropsychology review, 2014 - Springer
Abstract “The Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition (STAC)”, proposed in 2009, is a
conceptual model of cognitive aging that integrated evidence from structural and functional …

Resistance vs resilience to Alzheimer disease: clarifying terminology for preclinical studies

EM Arenaza-Urquijo, P Vemuri - Neurology, 2018 - AAN Enterprises
Preventing or delaying Alzheimer disease (AD) through lifestyle interventions will come from
a better understanding of the mechanistic underpinnings of (1) why a significant proportion …