A review of the effects of physical activity and exercise on cognitive and brain functions in older adults

L Bherer, KI Erickson… - Journal of aging research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Studies supporting the notion that physical activity and exercise can help alleviate the
negative impact of age on the body and the mind abound. This literature review provides an …

Episodic memory in normal aging and Alzheimer disease: Insights from imaging and behavioral studies

D Tromp, A Dufour, S Lithfous, T Pebayle… - Ageing research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Age-related cognitive changes often include difficulties in retrieving memories, particularly
those that rely on personal experiences within their temporal and spatial contexts (ie …

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 …

Functional connectivity tracks clinical deterioration in Alzheimer's disease

JS Damoiseaux, KE Prater, BL Miller, MD Greicius - Neurobiology of aging, 2012 - Elsevier
While resting state functional connectivity has been shown to decrease in patients with mild
and/or moderate Alzheimer's disease, it is not yet known how functional connectivity …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion tensor imaging of cerebral white matter integrity in cognitive aging

DJ Madden, IJ Bennett, A Burzynska, GG Potter… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this article we review recent research on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of white matter
(WM) integrity and the implications for age-related differences in cognition. Neurobiological …

Que PASA? The posterior–anterior shift in aging

SW Davis, NA Dennis, SM Daselaar, MS Fleck… - Cerebral …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
A consistent finding from functional neuroimaging studies of cognitive aging is an age-
related reduction in occipital activity coupled with increased frontal activity. This posterior …

Source monitoring 15 years later: what have we learned from fMRI about the neural mechanisms of source memory?

KJ Mitchell, MK Johnson - Psychological bulletin, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Focusing primarily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this article reviews
evidence regarding the roles of subregions of the medial temporal lobes, prefrontal cortex …

Longitudinal tests of an integrative model of leader development: Charting and understanding developmental trajectories

DV Day, HP Sin - The Leadership Quarterly, 2011 - Elsevier
The developmental trajectories of participants (N= 1315) engaged in team-based action
learning projects (k= 205) to promote leader development were estimated using two classes …

Neuroanatomical substrates of age-related cognitive decline.

TA Salthouse - Psychological bulletin, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
There are many reports of relations between age and cognitive variables and of relations
between age and variables representing different aspects of brain structure and a few …

Maintaining older brain functionality: a targeted review

S Ballesteros, E Kraft, S Santana, C Tziraki - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2015 - Elsevier
The unprecedented growth in the number of older adults in our society is accompanied by
the exponential increase in the number of elderly people who will suffer cognitive decline …