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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2010
As we grow older, we gain knowledge and experience greater emotional balance, but we also experience memory loss and difficulties in learning new associations. Which cognitive abilities decline, remain stable or improve with age depends on the health of the brain and body as well as on what skills are practiced or challenged in everyday life. Recent research provides a growing understanding of the relationship between physical and cognitive changes across the life span and reveals ways to increase mental sharpness and avoid cognitive decline. 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs Cogn Sci 2010 1 346-362
Advances in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care, 2018
This chapter focuses on cognitive functions and impairment in the elderly; its implications in daily functioning with inputs on differences in the existing literature. The chapter further focuses on the diagnostic and assessment issues and intervention strategies. Ageing is an inevitable phase of life and encompasses changes in physical, psychological and social realms of an individual. Concern with the dwindling health and presence of any medical issues make the geriatric population prone to develop mental health conditions. Poor memory and reduced functional ability is one of the common complaints from older adults coming to psychiatric or neurology clinics. Cognitive functions have been well documented regarding their role in daily functioning of an individual. With growing age of the brain; while some cognitive functions do slow down; some of the functions do evolve better with experience. In this context, it is important to differentiate between normal age related cognitive changes and symptoms of any degenerative disease.
Applying cognitive research to problems of aging
1999
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INSIGHTS INTO THE AGEING MIND: A VIEW FROM COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Behavioural research on ageing has mapped contrasting patterns of decline and stability in cognition across the adult lifespan. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies find robust declines in abilities such as encoding new memories of episodes or facts, working memory (the simultaneous short-term maintenance and manipulation of information involving EXECUTIVE PROCESSES) and processing speed (the speed with which information can be processed). By contrast, short-term memory (a component process of working memory), autobiographical memory, semantic knowledge and emotional processing remain relatively stable. This variable vulnerability of human abilities across the adult lifespan indicates that ageing has distinctive effects on the neural systems that subserve various abilities.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
The study of cognitive change across a life span, both in pathological and healthy samples, has been heavily influenced by developments in cognitive psychology as a theoretical paradigm, neuropsychology and other bio-medical fields; this alongside the increase in new longitudinal and cohort designs, complemented in the last decades by the evaluation of experimental interventions. Here, a review of aging databases was conducted, looking for the most relevant studies carried out on cognitive functioning in healthy older adults. The aim was to review not only longitudinal, cross-sectional or cohort studies, but also by intervention program evaluations. The most important studies, searching for long-term patterns of stability and change of cognitive measures across a life span and in old age, have shown a great range of inter-individual variability in cognitive functioning changes attributed to age. Furthermore, intellectual functioning in healthy individuals seems to decline rather lat...