Assessing cognitive decline in the aging brain: lessons from rodent and human studies

DVC Brito, F Esteves, AT Rajado, N Silva, I Araújo… - npj Aging, 2023 - nature.com
As life expectancy continues to increase worldwide, age-related dysfunction will largely
impact our societies in the future. Aging is well established to promote the deterioration of …

Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models

I Negrón-Oyarzo, T Dib, L Chacana-Véliz… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cognitive control of behavior is crucial for well-being, as allows subject to adapt to changing
environments in a goal-directed way. Changes in cognitive control of behavior is observed …

Protective effect of PDE4B subtype-specific inhibition in an App knock-in mouse model for Alzheimer's disease

P Armstrong, H Güngör, P Anongjanya… - …, 2024 - nature.com
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association study data has implicated PDE4B in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of senile dementia. PDE4B …

Cerebellar coordination of neuronal communication in cerebral cortex

SS McAfee, Y Liu, RV Sillitoe, DH Heck - Frontiers in systems …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cognitive processes involve precisely coordinated neuronal communications between
multiple cerebral cortical structures in a task specific manner. Rich new evidence now …

Periaxonal and nodal plasticities modulate action potential conduction in the adult mouse brain

CL Cullen, RE Pepper, MT Clutterbuck, KA Pitman… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Central nervous system myelination increases action potential conduction velocity.
However, it is unclear how myelination is coordinated to ensure the temporally precise …

Virtual reality video game improves high-fidelity memory in older adults

PE Wais, M Arioli, R Anguera-Singla, A Gazzaley - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Therapeutic interventions have not yet been shown to demonstrate restorative effects for
declining long-term memory (LTM) that affects many healthy older adults. We developed a …

Hippocampal theta phases organize the reactivation of large-scale electrophysiological representations during goal-directed navigation

L Kunz, L Wang, D Lachner-Piza, H Zhang… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Humans are adept in simultaneously following multiple goals, but the neural mechanisms for
maintaining specific goals and distinguishing them from other goals are incompletely …

Effects of estrogen on spatial navigation and memory

G Joue, T Navarro-Schröder, J Achtzehn, S Moffat… - …, 2024 - Springer
Rationale Animal studies suggest that the so-called “female” hormone estrogen enhances
spatial navigation and memory. This contradicts the observation that males generally out …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of personalized cognitive training with the machine learning algorithm on neural efficiency in healthy younger adults

YJ Jeun, Y Nam, SA Lee, JH Park - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
To date, neural efficiency, an ability to economically utilize mental resources, has not been
investigated after cognitive training. The purpose of this study was to provide customized …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic ethanol alters adrenergic receptor gene expression and produces cognitive deficits in male mice

AC Athanason, T Nadav, C Cates-Gatto, AJ Roberts… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hyperkateifia and stress-induced alcohol cravings drive relapse in individuals with alcohol
use disorder (AUD). The brain stress signal norepinephrine (also known as noradrenaline) …