Glymphatic Marker Associates with Motor and Cognitive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease
A study of 207 newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease patients reveals that glymphatic dysfunction associates with worse motor and cognitive symptoms, ...
Tag: cognitive function
Older Adults Farming Extensively Show Lower Odds of Low Cognitive Function
A cross-sectional study in Japan found that older adults farming at least 21 hours weekly had lower odds of low ...
Higher Physical Activity Linked to Better Cognition in Older Adults
Higher questionnaire-derived physical activity is associated with better baseline cognition and a smaller short-term cognitive decrease in older adults with ...
Sleep Extension Boosts Athletic Performance While Restriction Undermines It, Review Finds
A systematic review of 15 intervention studies found sleep extension improved sprint time, reaction time and endurance in athletes, while ...
Movement Bout Variability Linked to Daily Cognition in Older Adults
A new study reveals that the variability in the duration of daily movement bouts, rather than total activity volume, is ...
Variable Dual-Task Training Sparks Immediate Physical and Delayed Cognitive Gains
A randomized waitlist-controlled trial in older adults revealed that variable dual-task training produced immediate improvements in lower-limb strength along with ...
Research report: Health resort-based versus home-based rehabilitation for post-COVID-19 syndrome
A study in Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences finds that Health Resort-based rehabilitation offers greater improvements in dyspnea, grip strength, and ...
AI Connectome Models Predict Cognitive Performance in Multiple Sclerosis
In a study of 171 people with multiple sclerosis, artificial intelligence models using structural MRI lesion masks estimated brain connectomes ...
Deprived neighbourhoods linked to faster biological ageing across adult life
A large UK study finds that people living in more deprived areas show faster biological ageing, poorer cognitive performance and ...
Six-week supplement linked to sharper memory in postmenopausal women
A six-week randomized trial found that a multicomponent supplement containing PQQ, GABA, caffeine, and B vitamins was associated with significantly ...
Mind-body exercise may sharpen thinking in mild cognitive impairment, network meta-analysis finds
A network meta-analysis of 44 randomised trials in 3,189 patients with mild cognitive impairment found Baduanjin, Tai Chi, Qigong and ...
Silencing Gasdermin D Shields Hippocampal Neurons in Rat Status Epilepticus
In a lithium-pilocarpine rat model of status epilepticus, hippocampal GSDMD knockdown reduced pyroptosis and ferroptosis markers, improved neuronal survival, and ...
Loneliness Drives Declines in Mental, Cognitive and Functional Health in Older Europeans
A longitudinal SHARE analysis of Europeans aged 50 and over finds loneliness drives worsening mental, cognitive and functional health, while ...
Meal Timing Habits Linked to Memory Performance in Middle-Aged and Older Adults
A study in npj Science of Food links nighttime eating, prolonged eating windows, and other chrono-nutrition behaviors to poorer memory ...
Brain’s synergistic signaling may link obesity to weaker working memory
A resting-state fMRI analysis links higher BMI to poorer working memory and reduced efficiency of synergistic information processing in large-scale ...
Searching the internet, not just owning a device, linked to better cognition in older adults
A cross-sectional study of 821 community-dwelling older adults found internet search use, rather than device ownership alone, was associated with ...
Light Therapy Works Only During Sleep in Aging Mouse Brains
A study in mice finds that near-infrared light therapy clears beta-amyloid and improves memory in aged animals only when delivered ...
Blue Light Plus Exercise Restores Memory and Brain Rhythms in Alzheimer’s Mice
A one-week combination of ipRGC-sensitive blue light and exercise rescued memory deficits and restored pathological hippocampal rhythms in Alzheimer's model ...
Low IGF-1 Levels Linked to Higher Epilepsy Risk in UK Biobank
A UK Biobank study of 466,857 adults found that lower baseline serum IGF-1 was consistently associated with a higher risk ...
Table Tennis Leads Racket Sports Evidence in Older Adults, Review Finds
A network meta-analysis of 13 trials finds favorable effects concentrated in table tennis, with evidence too sparse to rank racket ...
