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There is bourgeoning interest in how older adults remember their falls and research in this area has demonstrated how falls can reshape memory retrieval in older adults. We pursued this line of research by assessing whether older adults succeed in integrating memories of falls into their life story. We invited older adults to remember their falls a...
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Patients with a dementia diagnosis and COVID-19 sometimes manifest an atypical clinical picture. However, differences between elderly COVID-19 patients having dementia and those not having dementia have not been described yet. The in-hospital mortality and out-of-hospital mortality from both groups has not been reported. The primary aim of this stu...
Published in Experimental aging research
Social disengagement among older persons may result from accumulated physical impact and social stressors experienced throughout life. Conversely, interventions that enhance social participation addresses social isolation with positive influences on health. This article, therefore, aimed to review the range of published studies that evaluated the h...
Published in Experimental aging research
There are numerous reports on the facilitatory role of the pineal gland (PG) in brain function, and the size this structure is suggested to be associated with its proper functionality. Previous works which studied the volume of the PG were mostly based on manual delineation of this region. In a recent work, we developed an MRI atlas for the PG in t...
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Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) has neuroprotection on chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) against oxidative stress. HO-1 may represent a target for treatment with CCH. This study aimed to observe the effect of EGCG on cognition impaired in a rat model with CCH and investigate the mechanism. Sprague-Dawley rat models of CCH were established usin...
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Patients wtih type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) have an increased risk of depressive symptoms. Whether serum neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is associated with depressive symptoms in old patients with type 2 DM is still uncertain. We aim to investigate whether serum NGAL levels were associated with elevated risk of depressive symptoms...
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Up to now, in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, the lower production of false memories in Alzheimer's disease has been explained in terms of non-activation of the critical lure. The aim of this study was to examine the critical lure activation process from items of DRM lists in Alzheimer's patients, using a free association task. Twenty-...
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Heart rate variability (HRV) has been suggested as an indicator of capacity to adapt effectively to physiological or environmental challenges and of physical and psychological health in old age. The study assessed levels of high-frequency HRV (HF-HRV) among older adults in relation to positive and negative affect and the mediating role of positive ...
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This study first examined whether real-time conscious postural control (reinvestment) and postural sway increase with different postural difficulties on a compliant surface among older adults. The second objective was to investigate the effect of an externally focused dual-task on real-time reinvestment and postural sway under a relatively challeng...
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Financial capacity (FC) is conceptualized as a dimension that encompasses a wide range of basic aptitudes and the capacity to judge and assess situations and make decisions according to one best interests. The Numerical Activities of Daily-Living-Financial (NADL-F) is an instrument of FC for clinical use developed in Italy. This study aims to perfo...
