Cardiovascular risk factors and accelerated cognitive decline in midlife: The CARDIA Study

K Yaffe, AL Bahorik, TD Hoang, S Forrester… - Neurology, 2020 - AAN Enterprises
Objective Increasing evidence supports an association between midlife cardiovascular risk
factors (CVRFs) and risk of dementia, but less is known about whether CVRFs influence …

The middle-aged brain: Biological sex and sex hormones shape memory circuitry

EG Jacobs, JM Goldstein - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last quarter century, a staggering number of brain imaging studies have probed the
neural basis of age-related cognitive decline. Using multimodal brain imaging tools, we now …

[HTML][HTML] Midlife aerobic exercise and brain structural integrity: Associations with age and cardiorespiratory fitness

T Tarumi, T Tomoto, J Repshas, C Wang, LS Hynan… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Lower midlife physical activity is associated with higher risk of neurodegenerative disease in
late life. However, it remains unknown whether physical exercise and fitness are associated …

The need to change: Is there a critical role of midlife adaptation in mental health later in life?

F Thams, S Brassen - ELife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Although late-life depression (LLD) is a serious health problem and more common than
dementia in people over 60, it is underdiagnosed and undertreated. The cognitive-emotional …

Premature cardiovascular disease and brain health in midlife: the CARDIA study

X Jiang, CE Lewis, NB Allen, S Sidney, K Yaffe - Neurology, 2023 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives To understand the role of premature (defined as≤ 60 years)
cardiovascular disease (CVD) in brain health earlier in life, we examined the associations of …

[HTML][HTML] Demands on perceptual and mnemonic fidelity are a key determinant of age-related cognitive decline throughout the lifespan.

HM Gellersen, J McMaster, A Abdurahman… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Aging results in less detailed memories, reflecting reduced fidelity of remembered compared
to real-world representations. We tested whether poorer representational fidelity across …

APOE ε4 and the influence of sex, age, vascular risk factors, and ethnicity on cognitive decline

SR Makkar, DM Lipnicki, JD Crawford… - The Journals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We aimed to examine the relationship between Apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE* 4) carriage on
cognitive decline, and whether these associations were moderated by sex, baseline age …

[HTML][HTML] Midlife dynamics of white matter architecture in lexical production

C Guichet, É Roger, A Attyé, S Achard, M Mermillod… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We aimed to examine the white matter changes associated with lexical production
difficulties, beginning in midlife with increased naming latencies. To delay lexical production …

EEG correlates of visual short-term memory in older age vary with adult lifespan cognitive development

I Wiegand, MJ Lauritzen, M Osler, EL Mortensen… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Visual short-term memory (vSTM) is a cognitive resource that declines with age. This study
investigated whether electroencephalography (EEG) correlates of vSTM vary with cognitive …

Modeling the neurocognitive dynamics of language across the lifespan

C Guichet, S Banjac, S Achard… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Healthy aging is associated with a heterogeneous decline across cognitive functions,
typically observed between language comprehension and language production (LP) …