ArticleScientific reports2022
Longitudinal stability in working memory and frontal activity in relation to general brain maintenance.
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- The stability of cognitive abilities: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
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- No long-term benefits from resistance training on brain grey matter volumes in active older adults at retirement age.BMC geriatrics · 2025Trial
- Brain maintenance biomarkers from structural and functional interactions in aging and neurodegeneration.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Aging-related losses in dopamine D2/3 receptor availability are linked to working-memory decline across five years.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
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- Never too late to start musical instrument training: Effects on working memory and subcortical preservation in healthy older adults across 4 years.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Editorial: The cognitive ageing collection.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dopamine D1-signaling modulates maintenance of functional network segregation in aging.Aging brain · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cognitive functions are well-preserved for some older individuals, but the underlying brain mechanisms remain disputed. Here, 5-year longitudinal 3-back in-scanner and offline data classified individuals in a healthy older sample (baseline age = 64-68 years) into having stable or declining working-memory (WM). Consistent with a vital role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), WM stability or decline was related to maintained or reduced longitudinal PFC functional responses. Subsequent analyses of imaging markers of general brain maintenance revealed higher levels in the stable WM group on measures of neurotransmission and vascular health. Also, categorical and continuous analyses showed that rate of WM decline was related to global (ventricles) and local (hippocampus) measures of neuronal integrity. Thus, our findings support a role of the PFC as well as general brain maintenance in explaining heterogeneity in longitudinal WM trajectories in aging.
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