Disconnected aging: cerebral white matter integrity and age-related differences in cognition

IJ Bennett, DJ Madden - Neuroscience, 2014 - Elsevier
Cognition arises as a result of coordinated processing among distributed brain regions and
disruptions to communication within these neural networks can result in cognitive …

Resting-state functional connectivity in normal brain aging

LK Ferreira, GF Busatto - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The world is aging and, as the elderly population increases, age-related cognitive decline
emerges as a major concern. Neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic …

Structural and functional brain changes related to different types of physical activity across the life span

C Voelcker-Rehage, C Niemann - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Physical activity has been shown to improve cognitive functioning. Research has largely
focused on cognitive facilitation by cardiovascular exercise in older adults. Only few studies …

Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation temporarily reverses age-associated cognitive decline and functional brain activity changes

M Meinzer, R Lindenberg, D Antonenko… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
The rising proportion of elderly people worldwide will yield an increased incidence of age-
associated cognitive impairments, imposing major burdens on societies. Consequently …

Aging effects on whole-brain functional connectivity in adults free of cognitive and psychiatric disorders

LK Ferreira, ACB Regina, N Kovacevic… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aging is associated with decreased resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) within the
default mode network (DMN), but most functional imaging studies have restricted the …

Acquisition of Paleolithic toolmaking abilities involves structural remodeling to inferior frontoparietal regions

EE Hecht, DA Gutman, N Khreisheh, SV Taylor… - Brain Structure and …, 2015 - Springer
Human ancestors first modified stones into tools 2.6 million years ago, initiating a cascading
increase in technological complexity that continues today. A parallel trend of brain …

New methods, old brains—a systematic review on the effects of tDCS on the cognition of elderly people

A Siegert, L Diedrich, A Antal - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The world's population is aging. With this comes an increase in the prevalence of age-
associated diseases, which amplifies the need for novel treatments to counteract cognitive …

Phenotypic variability in resting-state functional connectivity: current status

CJ Vaidya, EM Gordon - Brain connectivity, 2013 - liebertpub.com
We reviewed the extant literature with the goal of assessing the extent to which resting-state
functional connectivity is associated with phenotypic variability in healthy and disordered …

Resting-state functional connectivity: An emerging method for the study of language networks in post-stroke aphasia

J Klingbeil, M Wawrzyniak, A Stockert, D Saur - Brain and cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Aphasia results both from direct effects of focal damage to eloquent cortical areas as well as
dysfunction of interconnected remote areas within the language network. Resting-state …

Healthy aging by staying selectively connected: a mini-review

D Antonenko, A Flöel - Gerontology, 2013 - karger.com
Cognitive neuroscience of the healthy aging human brain has thus far addressed age-
related changes of local functional and structural properties of gray and white matter and …