It is better than you think: fluid intelligence across the lifespan [PDF]
The growth and decline of fluid intelligence is associated with brain structural changes. For example, development of fluid IQ is associated with cortex thickness during the critical period between 6 to 12 years old.
Ross Alloway, Tracy Packiam Alloway
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Aging, Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss: Effects of Auditory Rehabilitation and Training with Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants on Cognitive Function and Depression among Older Adults [PDF]
A growing interest in cognitive effects associated with speech and hearing processes is spreading throughout the scientific community essentially guided by evidence that central and peripheral hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline.
Benatti, Alice +10 more
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ABSTRACT Background Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) comprises a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare neurological disorders characterized particularly by iron accumulation in the basal ganglia. To date, 15 genes have been associated with NBIA.
Seda Susgun +95 more
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Cardiac dysfunction and cognitive decline [PDF]
This editorial refers to ‘Associations between single and multiple cardiometabolic disease and cognitive abilities in 14 129 UK Biobank participants’, by D. Lyall et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw528. The Ebers papyrus dating back to ∼1550 BC contains a treatise on the heart where it refers to this organ as the centre of the body’s blood supply.1 ...
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The Case of a 25‐Year‐Old Woman With Isolated Head Tremor
ABSTRACT This study reported a 25‐year‐old woman with isolated head tremors as the main manifestation, along with type 1 diabetes, bilateral hearing loss, and leukoencephalopathy, who was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease due to a single large mtDNA deletion (m.8647‐16082del).
Ying Zhao +5 more
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Structure-based inhibitors of amyloid beta core suggest a common interface with tau. [PDF]
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is characterized by plaques of amyloid beta (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles of tau. Aβ aggregation is thought to occur at early stages of the disease, and ultimately gives way to the formation of tau tangles which ...
Bowler, Jeannette +13 more
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Coordinated analysis of age, sex, and education effects on change in MMSE scores [PDF]
Objectives. We describe and compare the expected performance trajectories of older adults on the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) across six independent studies from four countries in the context of a collaborative network of longitudinal studies of
A. M. Piccinin +46 more
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Early‐Onset Versus Late‐Onset LGI1‐Antibody Encephalitis
ABSTRACT Background Leucine‐rich glioma‐inactivated 1 antibody (LGI1‐Ab) encephalitis predominantly affected older individuals, but has also been reported in younger patients. However, the demographic, clinical, and prognostic characteristics of early‐onset LGI1‐Ab encephalitis have yet to be systematically elucidated. This study aims to systematically
Yu Kong +7 more
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Falls in institutionalized elderly with and without cognitive decline A study of some factors
. Falls in long-stay institutions for elderly people have a high prevalence, contributing to the physical and mental deterioration of institutionalized elderly.
Cristina Lavareda Baixinho +4 more
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Advances in the Study of Sleep-related Subjective Cognitive Decline [PDF]
Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) usually predicts the risk of future cognitive decline, and sleep disturbances are very common in patients with SCD and often precede detectable cognitive changes.
WEN Yining, HUANG Huichang, ZHAO Mingming
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