Executive summary The 2020 annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA), held virtually on 18–19 November 2020 …

At present, resilience refers to a highly heterogeneous concept with ill‐defined determinants,
mechanisms, and outcomes. This call for action argues for the need to define resilience as a …

Objective: Loneliness is the subjective distress of feeling alone and has a strong impact on
wellbeing and health. In addition to well-known predictors like isolation and poor health, a …

Background Evidence in older adults suggests that higher cardiorespiratory fitness and
lower cardiovascular risk are associated with greater cognition. However, given that …

Background Disease-modifying agents to counteract cognitive impairment in older age
remain elusive. Hence, identifying modifiable factors promoting resilience, as the capacity of …

In recent years, supported by new scientific evidence, the conceptualization of cognitive
reserve (CR) has been progressively enriched and now encompasses not only cognitive …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to investigate the
psychological impact of a global major adverse situation. Our aim was to examine, in a …

Definition The Mediterranean diet is a dietary pattern and associated lifestyle that adopts
mainly plant foods. The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been acknowledged by the United …

Introduction Excitability of the primary motor cortex measured with TMS has been associated
with cognitive dysfunctions in patient populations. However, only a few studies have …

Pain processing involves emotional and cognitive factors that can modify pain perception.
Increasing evidence suggests that pain catastrophizing (PC) is implicated, through pain …