From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Healthy adults carrying the gene APOE4 — the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — may struggle to adapt their brain activity to increasing cognitive demands…
From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine press release: Social isolation has been linked to a wide range of health problems, as well as a shorter lifespan in humans and other animals. In fact, during…
From the Research Society on Alcoholism press release: The more alcohol that people drink, the more their cells appear to age. In a new study that will be shared at the 40th annual scientific meeting of…
From the University of Eastern Finland press release: Greater muscle strength is associated with better cognitive function in aging men and women, according to a new Finnish study. The association of extensively measured upper and lower…
From the Emory Health Sciences press release: Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic and environmental risk factors. But at the biochemical level,…
From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine press release: Cognitive training, blood pressure management for people with hypertension, and increased physical activity all show modest but inconclusive evidence that they can help prevent cognitive…
From the University of Gothenburg press release: Do you want to keep working until you’re 70, or even 75? Then, it’s good to give this some thought before you turn 50. New research now calls for…
From the Stony Brook University press release: Is 70 the new 60? A new Stony Brook University-led study to be published in PLOS ONE uses new measures of aging to scientifically illustrate that one’s actual…
From the IOS Press press release: People at risk for Alzheimer’s disease who do more moderate-intensity physical activity, but not light-intensity physical activity, are more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their…
From the Coventry University press release: More frequent sexual activity has been linked to improved brain function in older adults, according to a study by the universities of Coventry and Oxford. Researchers found that people…