Neural dedifferentiation in the aging brain

JD Koen, MD Rugg - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Many cognitive abilities decline with age even in the absence of detectable pathology.
Recent evidence indicates that age-related neural dedifferentiation, operationalized in terms …

Ageing vision and falls: a review

LN Saftari, OS Kwon - Journal of physiological anthropology, 2018 - Springer
Background Falls are the leading cause of accidental injury and death among older adults.
One of three adults over the age of 65 years falls annually. As the size of elderly population …

[HTML][HTML] Aging and vision

C Owsley - Vision research, 2011 - Elsevier
Given the increasing size of the older adult population in many countries, there is a pressing
need to identify the nature of aging-related vision impairments, their underlying …

Emotion regulation and aging

ST Charles, LL Carstensen - Handbook of emotion regulation, 2007 - books.google.com
When the 16th-century English coined the term “emotion,” they could not have chosen a
more appropriate etymological origin. Derived from the Latin word emovere, meaning to …

[HTML][HTML] Experience-dependent transfer of Otx2 homeoprotein into the visual cortex activates postnatal plasticity

S Sugiyama, AA Di Nardo, S Aizawa, I Matsuo… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
Neural circuits are shaped by experience in early postnatal life. Distinct GABAergic
connections within visual cortex determine the timing of the critical period for rewiring ocular …

High‐dose Vitamin B6 supplementation reduces anxiety and strengthens visual surround suppression

DT Field, RO Cracknell, JR Eastwood… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Vitamins B6 and B12 are involved in metabolic processes that decrease
neural excitation and increase inhibition. This double‐blind study investigated the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Functional dedifferentiation and altered connectivity in older adults: neural accounts of cognitive aging

JOS Goh - Aging and disease, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aging is associated with myriad changes in behavioral performance and brain structure and
function. Given this complex interplay of brain and behavior, two streams of findings are …

A computational perspective on autism

A Rosenberg, JS Patterson… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests as a heterogeneous set of social,
cognitive, motor, and perceptual symptoms. This system-wide pervasiveness suggests that …

A substantial and unexpected enhancement of motion perception in autism

JH Foss-Feig, D Tadin, KB Schauder… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Atypical perceptual processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is well documented. In
addition, growing evidence supports the hypothesis that an excitatory/inhibitory …

Personality and mortality in old age

RS Wilson, CF Mendes de Leon… - The Journals of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We examined the relation of personality to mortality in 883 older Catholic clergy members
(69% women). At baseline, they completed the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, which assesses …