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·August 21, 2021·4 min read

Hearing Loss Could Be Cause of Depression in Older People

Hearing loss was associated with an increased risk of depression in older adults. Those of lower socioeconomic status were twice as likely to report symptoms of depression. However, using hearing aids helped alleviate symptoms of depression.

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·August 20, 2021·4 min read

Mindfulness May Improve Cognition in Older Adults

Mindfulness and meditation may offer small but significant benefits to cognition, especially in older adults.

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·August 19, 2021·4 min read

Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging

Orienting and executive inhibition, two key brain functions associated with attending to new information and focusing on important aspects of a situation, can improve in older individuals. These functions underlie aspects of cognition, including memory and decision making, and even navigation, math, and language.

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·August 18, 2021·5 min read

Small Changes in Diet Could Help You Live Healthier and More Sustainably

Substituting 10% of daily caloric intake from processed and red meats with legumes, nuts, and seafood can reduce your dietary carbon footprint by one-third, and add 48 "healthy minutes" to your daily life.

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·August 17, 2021·5 min read

Structural and Functional Alignment in the Brain Linked to Age, Sex and Cognition

The way in which the brain's wiring aligns with patterns of activity may vary with age, sex, and genetics. The alignments may have implications on cognition, researchers report.

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·August 16, 2021·6 min read

Having a Good Listener Improves Your Brain Health

Having at least one person you can rely on to listen to your concerns when you need to talk can help improve cognitive resilience and stave off cognitive decline associated with neurodegeneration and aging.

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·August 9, 2021·3 min read

Microbes Turn Back the Clock as Research Discovers Their Potential to Reverse Aging in the Brain

The gut microbiome can be harnessed to reverse age-related brain deterioration and restore cognitive function, researchers report.

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·August 6, 2021·3 min read

The Older People Think a Black Child Is, the More Likely They Are to Wrongly See the Child As Angry

The older an adult believes a Black child to be, the more likely they are to believe the child is exhibiting angry emotions, even when they are not. The same emotional perception shift does not occur when an adult sees an image of a white child.

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·August 5, 2021·6 min read

New Mothers’ Sleep Loss Linked to Accelerated Aging

New mothers who sleep less than seven hours a night six months after giving birth had an increase in biological age of between three to seven years compared to new moms who slept for seven or more hours.

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·August 5, 2021·5 min read

Lower Blood Levels of Amyloid Beta 42 in Midlife Associated With Dementia Risk

Lower blood levels of amyloid-beta 42 during mid-life were associated with a higher risk of dementia and a marginally increased risk of mild cognitive impairment later in life, a new study reports.

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·July 30, 2021·4 min read

Molecular Insights Into Primate Hippocampal Aging

Study establishes a comprehensive single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the aging primate hippocampus and provides key information about age-related molecular signatures at the single-cell level.