Ageing causes changes to the brain size, vasculature, and cognition. The brain shrinks with
increasing age and there are changes at all levels from molecules to morphology. Incidence …

A hypothetical construct of “cognitive reserve” is widely used to explain how, in the face of
neurodegenerative changes that are similar in nature and extent, individuals vary …

In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different
disciplines. It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very …

The effects of aging and IQ on performance were examined in three two-choice tasks:
numerosity discrimination, recognition memory, and lexical decision. The experimental data …

The effects of aging and IQ on performance were examined in 4 memory tasks: item
recognition, associative recognition, cued recall, and free recall. For item and associative …

Although there is now a substantial literature on the putative neuroprotective effects of
estrogen on cognitive functioning in postmenopausal women, it is replete with …

Objective To examine the association between cognitive ability in childhood and mid-life
cognitive decline in the normal population. Design Longitudinal, population based, birth …

Abstract Interpretations of longitudinal studies of cognitive aging are misleading unless
effects of practice and selective drop-out are considered. A random effects model taking …

This paper describes the participants, design, method and tests used during a 20 year
longitudinal study of cognitive changes in increasing age experienced by 6542 healthy …

The main objective of this study was to examine the effects of regional brain changes on
cognitive decline and the modifying influence of vascular risk (VR) factors. We present latent …