Cognition and dementia in older patients with epilepsy

A Sen, V Capelli, M Husain - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
With advances in healthcare and an ageing population, the number of older adults with
epilepsy is set to rise substantially across the world. In developed countries the highest …

Age differences in the functional interactions among the default, frontoparietal control, and dorsal attention networks

C Grady, S Sarraf, C Saverino, K Campbell - Neurobiology of aging, 2016 - Elsevier
Older adults typically show weaker functional connectivity (FC) within brain networks
compared with young adults, but stronger functional connections between networks. Our …

Consequences of multilingualism for neural architecture

S Hayakawa, V Marian - Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Language has the power to shape cognition, behavior, and even the form and
function of the brain. Technological and scientific developments have recently yielded an …

Brain network activity in monolingual and bilingual older adults

CL Grady, G Luk, FIM Craik, E Bialystok - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
Bilingual older adults typically have better performance on tasks of executive control (EC)
than do their monolingual peers, but differences in brain activity due to language experience …

Age differences in the intrinsic functional connectivity of default network subsystems

KL Campbell, O Grigg, C Saverino… - Frontiers in aging …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Recent work suggests that the default mode network (DMN) includes two core regions, the
ventromedial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), and several unique …

Brain signal variability is modulated as a function of internal and external demand in younger and older adults

CL Grady, DD Garrett - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Variability in the Blood Oxygen-Level Dependent (BOLD) signal from fMRI is often
associated with better cognitive performance and younger age. It has been proposed that …

Associations between dopamine D2 receptor availability and BMI depend on age

LC Dang, GR Samanez-Larkin, JJ Castrellon… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective The dopamine D2/3 receptor subtypes (DRD2/3) are the most widely studied
neurotransmitter biomarker in research on obesity, but results to date have been …

Differential effect of age on posterior and anterior hippocampal functional connectivity

JS Damoiseaux, RP Viviano, P Yuan, N Raz - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Aging is associated with declines in cognitive performance and multiple changes in the
brain, including reduced default mode functional connectivity (FC). However, conflicting …

The unique role of bilingualism among cognitive reserve-enhancing factors

F Gallo, J Abutalebi - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
The umbrella term cognitive reserve-enhancing factors refers to those experiential and
lifestyle factors (such as intellectual activities, regular physical exercise, healthy nutrition …

Dopamine synthesis capacity is associated with D2/3 receptor binding but not dopamine release

AS Berry, VD Shah, DJ Furman, RL White III… - …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging allows the estimation of multiple
aspects of dopamine function including dopamine synthesis capacity, dopamine release …