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Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Aging
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2010Cognitive aging describes the changes in mental abilities that occur with increasing age. Although experts disagree on the core underlying processes involved, one factor that links many factors associated with cognitive aging is neuroinflammation. Markers of inflammation are associated directly with deficits in cognitive function and with diseases that
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Cognitive reserve and the neurobiology of cognitive aging
Ageing Research Reviews, 2004A hypothetical construct of "cognitive reserve" is widely used to explain how, in the face of neurodegenerative changes that are similar in nature and extent, individuals vary considerably in the severity of cognitive aging and clinical dementia. Intelligence, education and occupational level are believed to be major active components of cognitive ...
Lawrence J Whalley +2 more
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractAs we grow older, we gain knowledge and experience greater emotional balance, but we also experience memory loss and difficulties in learning new associations. Which cognitive abilities decline, remain stable or improve with age depends on the health of the brain and body as well as on what skills are practiced or challenged in everyday life ...
P.S.R. Davidson, G. Winocur
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AbstractAs we grow older, we gain knowledge and experience greater emotional balance, but we also experience memory loss and difficulties in learning new associations. Which cognitive abilities decline, remain stable or improve with age depends on the health of the brain and body as well as on what skills are practiced or challenged in everyday life ...
P.S.R. Davidson, G. Winocur
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Neuroplasticity and cognitive aging: The scaffolding theory of aging and cognition [PDF]
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 2009 A recent proposal called the Scaffolding Theory of Cognitive Aging (STAC) postulates that functional changes with aging are part of a lifespan process of compensatory cognitive scaffolding that is an attempt to alleviate the cognitive declines associated with aging.
Joshua O, Goh, Denise C, Park
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Cognitive Strategy Variations During Aging
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2010 The last two decades of research in cognitive aging have seen a shift from simply describing age-related changes in cognitive performance to determining the mechanisms underlying these changes.
Patrick Lemaire
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