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Pupillo F, Düzel S, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Shing YL. Deficits in memory metacognitive efficiency in late adulthood are related to distinct brain profile. Memory 2024:1-17. [PMID: 38635864 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2341711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
Abstract
The tendency of falsely remembering events that did not happen in the past increases with age. This is particularly evident in cases in which features presented at study are re-presented at test in a recombined constellation (termed rearranged pairs). Interestingly, older adults also express high confidence in such false memories, a tendency that may indicate reduced metacognitive efficiency. Within an existing cohort study, we aimed at investigating age-related differences in memory metacognitive efficiency (as measured by meta d' ratio) in a sample of 1522 older adults and 397 young adults. The analysis showed an age-related deficit in metacognition which was more pronounced for rearranged pairs than for new pairs. We then explored associations between cortical thickness and memory metacognitive efficiency for rearranged pairs in a subsample of 231 older adults. By using partial least square analysis, we found that a multivariate profile composed by ventromedial prefrontal cortex, insula, and parahippocampal cortex was uniquely associated with between-person differences in memory metacognitive efficiency. These results suggest that the impairment in memory metacognitive efficiency for false alarms is a distinct age-related deficit, above and beyond a general age-related decline in memory discrimination, and that it is associated with brain regions involved in metacognitive processes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Francesco Pupillo
- Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- TS Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- Friede Springer Cardiovascular Prevention Center @Charité, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, German
- Lise-Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, German
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- IDeA Center for Individual Development and Adaptive Education, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Vetter VM, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Homann J, Meyer-Arndt L, Braun J, Pohrt A, Kendel F, Wagner GG, Thiel A, Bertram L, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Gerstorf D, Demuth I. Change in body weight of older adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal results from the Berlin Aging Study II. J Nutr Health Aging 2024; 28:100206. [PMID: 38460212 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnha.2024.100206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Change in body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic as an unintended side effect of lockdown measures has been predominantly reported for younger and middle-aged adults. However, information on older adults for which weight loss is known to result in adverse outcomes, is scarce. In this study we describe the body weight change in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown measures and explore putative associated factors with a focus on the period that includes the first six months of the COVID-19 containment measures. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with three follow-up examinations over the course of 10 years. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In this study, we analyzed the longitudinal weight change of 472 participants of the Berlin Aging Study II (mean age of 67.5 years at baseline). MEASUREMENTS Body weight was assessed at four time points. Additionally, differences between subgroups characterized by socio-economic, cognitive, and psychosocial variables as well as morbidity burden, biological age markers (epigenetic clocks, telomere length), and frailty were compared. RESULTS On average, women and men lost 0.87% (n = 227) and 0.5% (n = 245) of their body weight per year in the study period covering the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Weight loss among men was particularly pronounced among groups characterized by change in physical activity due to COVID-19 lockdown, low positive affect, premature epigenetic age (7-CpG clock), diagnosed metabolic syndrome, and a more masculine gender score (all variables: p < 0.05, n = 245). CONCLUSION During the COVID-19 pandemic, older participants lost weight with a 2.5-times (women) and 2-times (men) higher rate than what is expected in this age.
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- Valentin Max Vetter
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Biology of Aging Working Group, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institut Für Bildungsforschung, Germany; Friede Springer Cardiovascular Prevention Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CBF), Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Neurology with Experimental Neurology, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biometrics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany; Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute for Gender in Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany; Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Biology of Aging Working Group, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
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Ohlei O, Sommerer Y, Dobricic V, Homann J, Deecke L, Schilling M, Bartrés-Faz D, Cattaneo G, Düzel S, Fjell AM, Lindenberger U, Pascual-Leone Á, Sedghpour Sabet S, Solé-Padullés C, Tormos JM, Vetter VM, Walhovd KB, Wesse T, Wittig M, Franke A, Demuth I, Lill CM, Bertram L. Genome-wide QTL mapping across three tissues highlights several Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease loci potentially acting via DNA methylation. medRxiv 2023:2023.12.22.23300365. [PMID: 38196633 PMCID: PMC10775408 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.22.23300365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
Abstract
DNA methylation (DNAm) is an epigenetic mark with essential roles in disease development and predisposition. Here, we created genome-wide maps of methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTL) in three peripheral tissues and used Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to assess the potential causal relationships between DNAm and risk for two common neurodegenerative disorders, i.e. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; ~5.5M sites) and DNAm (~850K CpG sites) data were generated from whole blood (n=1,058), buccal (n=1,527) and saliva (n=837) specimens. We identified between 11 and 15 million genome-wide significant (p<10-14) SNP-CpG associations in each tissue. Combining these meQTL GWAS results with recent AD/PD GWAS summary statistics by MR strongly suggests that the previously described associations between PSMC3, PICALM, and TSPAN14 and AD may be founded on differential DNAm in or near these genes. In addition, there is strong, albeit less unequivocal, support for causal links between DNAm at PRDM7 in AD as well as at KANSL1/MAPT in AD and PD. Our study adds valuable insights on AD/PD pathogenesis by combining two high-resolution "omics" domains, and the meQTL data shared along with this publication will allow like-minded analyses in other diseases.
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- Olena Ohlei
- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Gene Regulation of Cell Identity, Regenerative Medicine Program, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut Guttmann, Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació adscrit a la UAB, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Camí de les Escoles, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research and Deanna and Sidney Wolk Center for Memory Health, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut Guttmann, Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació adscrit a la UAB, Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Fundació Institut d'Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Camí de les Escoles, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biology of Aging Working Group, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Division of Lipid Metabolism, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
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- Biology of Aging Working Group, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Division of Lipid Metabolism, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit (AGE), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Köhncke Y, Kühn S, Düzel S, Sander MC, Brandmaier AM, Lindenberger U. Grey-matter structure in cortical and limbic regions correlates with general cognitive ability in old age. Aging Brain 2023; 5:100103. [PMID: 38186748 PMCID: PMC10770753 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
Abstract
According to the maintenance hypothesis (Nyberg et al., 2012), structural integrity of the brain's grey matter helps to preserve cognitive functioning into old age. A corollary of this hypothesis that can be tested in cross-sectional data is that grey-matter structural integrity and general cognitive ability are positively associated in old age. Building on Köhncke et al. (2021), who found that region-specific latent factors of grey-matter integrity are positively associated with episodic memory ability among older adults, we examine associations between general factors of grey-matter integrity and a general factor of cognitive ability in a cross-sectional sample of 1466 participants aged 60-88 years, 319 of whom contributed imaging data. Indicator variables based on T1-weighted images (voxel-based morphometry, VBM), magnetization-transfer imaging (MT), and diffusion tensor imaging-derived mean diffusivity (MD) had sufficient portions of variance in common to establish latent factors of grey-matter structure for a comprehensive set of regions of interest (ROI). Individual differences in grey-matter factors were positively correlated across neocortical and limbic areas, allowing for the definition of second-order, general factors for neocortical and limbic ROI, respectively. Both general grey-matter factors were positively correlated with general cognitive ability. For the basal ganglia, the three modality-specific indicators showed heterogenous loading patterns, and no reliable associations of the general grey-matter factor to general cognitive ability were found. To provide more direct tests of the maintenance hypothesis, we recommend applying the present structural modeling approach to longitudinal data, thereby enhancing the physiological validity of latent constructs of brain structure.
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- Ylva Köhncke
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK, & Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK, & Berlin, Germany
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Plini ERG, Melnychuk MC, Harkin A, Dahl MJ, McAuslan M, Kühn S, Boyle RT, Whelan R, Andrews R, Düzel S, Dreweilies J, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Norman K, Robertson IH, Dockree PM. Erratum to: Dietary Tyrosine Intake (FFQ) Is Associated with Locus Coeruleus, Attention and Grey Matter Maintenance: An MRI Structural Study on 398 Healthy Individuals of the Berlin Aging Study-II. J Nutr Health Aging 2023; 27:1288. [PMID: 38242606 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-2034-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Emanuele R G Plini
- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland.
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland; School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, 90089, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Friede Springer Cardiovascular prevention center at Charité, Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Enviromental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, 90089, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, Charlestown, MA, USA; Lise Meitner Group for Enviromental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany; Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany; Department of Geriatrics and Medical Gerontology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13347, Berlin, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, 10785, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Psychology, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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Dahl MJ, Bachman SL, Dutt S, Düzel S, Bodammer NC, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Werkle-Bergner M, Mather M. The integrity of dopaminergic and noradrenergic brain regions is associated with different aspects of late-life memory performance. Nat Aging 2023; 3:1128-1143. [PMID: 37653256 PMCID: PMC10501910 DOI: 10.1038/s43587-023-00469-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
Abstract
Changes in dopaminergic neuromodulation play a key role in adult memory decline. Recent research has also implicated noradrenaline in shaping late-life memory. However, it is unclear whether these two neuromodulators have distinct roles in age-related cognitive changes. Here, combining longitudinal MRI of the dopaminergic substantia nigra-ventral tegmental area (SN-VTA) and noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) in younger (n = 69) and older (n = 251) adults, we found that dopaminergic and noradrenergic integrity are differentially associated with memory performance. While LC integrity was related to better episodic memory across several tasks, SN-VTA integrity was linked to working memory. Longitudinally, we found that older age was associated with more negative change in SN-VTA and LC integrity. Notably, changes in LC integrity reliably predicted future episodic memory. These differential associations of dopaminergic and noradrenergic nuclei with late-life cognitive decline have potential clinical utility, given their degeneration in several age-associated diseases.
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- Martin J Dahl
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Vetter VM, Özince DD, Kiselev J, Düzel S, Demuth I. Self-reported and accelerometer-based assessment of physical activity in older adults: results from the Berlin Aging Study II. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10047. [PMID: 37344489 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36924-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Physical activity (PA) has a substantial impact on health and mortality. Besides questionnaires that rely on subjective assessment of activity levels, accelerometers can help to objectify an individual's PA. In this study, variables estimating PA and sleep time obtained through the wGT3X-BT activity monitor (ActiGraph LLC, USA) in 797 participants of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) were analyzed. Self-reports of PA and sleep time were recorded with Rapid Assessment of Physical Activity (RAPA) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index sleep questionnaire (PSQI). Total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides (TG), fasting glucose, and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) were determined in an accredited standard laboratory. Of all participants, 760 fulfilled the PA wear-time criteria. In this sample mean age was 75.6 years (SD: 3.8 years, range 66.0-94.1 years) and 53% of the included participants were women. Average wear time was 23.2 h/day (SD 1.3 h/day). Statistically significant differences between RAPA groups were found for all accelerometric variables except energy expenditure. Post-hoc analysis, however, suggested low agreement between subjective and device-based assessment of physical activity. TC, HDL-C, LDL-C, TG, fasting glucose and HbA1c were weakly correlated with accelerometric variables (Pearson's r ≤ 0.25). Device-based average sleep time per night (mean sleep time = 6.91 h, SD = 1.3, n = 720) and self-reported average sleep time per night (mean sleep time = 7.1 h, SD = 1.15 h, n = 410) were in a comparable range and moderately correlated (Pearson's r = 0.31, p < 0.001, n = 410). Results from this study suggest that self-reported PA obtained through the RAPA and device-based measures assessed by accelerometers are partially inconsistent in terms of the physical activity level of the participants. Self-reported and device-based measures of average sleep time per night, however, were comparable.
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- Valentin Max Vetter
- Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Biology of Aging Working Group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CVK/CCM), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Chariteplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CBF), Berlin, Germany
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- Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Biology of Aging Working Group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany.
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Dahl M, Bachman S, Dutt S, Düzel S, Bodammer N, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Werkle-Bergner M, Mather M. FV 12 The integrity of dopaminergic and noradrenergic brain regions is associated with different aspects of late-life memory performance. Clin Neurophysiol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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Polk SE, Kleemeyer MM, Bodammer NC, Misgeld C, Porst J, Wolfarth B, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Düzel S, Wenger E. Aerobic exercise is associated with region-specific changes in volumetric, tensor-based, and fixel-based measures of white matter integrity in healthy older adults. Neuroimage: Reports 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ynirp.2022.100155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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von Rennenberg R, Liman T, Nolte CH, Nave AH, Scheitz JF, Düzel S, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Gerstorf D, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth I, Endres M. High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: Results of the Berlin Aging Study II. Gerontology 2023; 69:140-148. [PMID: 35512662 DOI: 10.1159/000523845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION There is evidence of an association between markers of cardiac injury and cognition in patients with cardiovascular disease. We hypothesized that levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) are associated with cognitive performance and cognitive decline in a population of predominantly healthy older adults. METHODS We included 1,226 predominantly healthy adults ≥60 years from the Berlin Aging Study II. Participants were recruited from the general population of the Berlin metropolitan area from 2009 to 2014. At baseline, participants underwent measurement of hs-cTnT and cognitive testing using the extended Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD-Plus) battery. In addition, the Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) was performed at baseline and at follow-up (7.3 ± 1.4 years after the baseline visit). The CERAD test results were summarized into four cognitive domains (processing speed, executive function, visuo-construction, and memory). After summing-up the respective raw scores, we calculated standardized z scores. We performed unadjusted and adjusted linear regression models to assess links between hs-cTnT and cognitive domains. We used linear mixed models to analyze associations between hs-cTnT and cognitive decline according to changes in DSST scores over time. RESULTS The mean age of study participants at baseline was 68.5 (±3.6) years, 49% were female, and median hs-cTnT levels were 6 ng/L (IQR 4-8 ng/L). We detected no significant association between hs-cTnT and different cognitive domains at baseline after adjustment for age, sex, education, and cardiovascular risk factors. Hs-cTnT was associated with cognitive decline, which remained statistically significant after full adjustment (adjusted beta-coefficient -0.82 (-1.28 to -0.36), p = 0.001). After stratification for sex, the association with hs-cTnT remained statistically significant in men but not in women. CONCLUSION Higher hs-cTnT levels in older men are associated with cognitive decline measured with the DSST.
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- Regina von Rennenberg
- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen), Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Gender in Medicine (Institut für Geschlechterforschung in der Medizin, GiM), Charite-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Biology of Aging working group, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Biology of Aging working group, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen), Berlin, Germany.,German Center for Cardiovascular Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislaufforschung), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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Plini ERG, Melnychuk MC, Harkin A, Dahl MJ, McAuslan M, Kühn S, Boyle RT, Whelan R, Andrews R, Düzel S, Drewelies J, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Norman K, Robertson IH, Dockree PM. Dietary Tyrosine Intake (FFQ) Is Associated with Locus Coeruleus, Attention and Grey Matter Maintenance: An MRI Structural Study on 398 Healthy Individuals of the Berlin Aging Study-II. J Nutr Health Aging 2023; 27:1174-1187. [PMID: 38151868 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-2005-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE It is documented that low protein and amino-acid dietary intake is related to poorer cognitive health and increased risk of dementia. Degradation of the neuromodulatory pathways, (comprising the cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotoninergic and noradrenergic systems) is observed in neurodegenerative diseases and impairs the proper biosynthesis of key neuromodulators from micro-nutrients and amino acids. How these micro-nutrients are linked to neuromodulatory pathways in healthy adults is less studied. The Locus Coeruleus-Noradrenergic System (LC-NA) is the earliest subcortical structure affected in Alzheimer's disease, showing marked neurodegeneration, but is also sensitive for age-related changes. The LC-NA system is critical for supporting attention and cognitive control, functions that are enhanced both by tyrosine administration and chronic tyrosine intake. The purpose of this study was to 1) investigate whether the dietary intake of tyrosine, the key precursor for noradrenaline (NA), is related to LC signal intensity 2) whether LC mediates the reported association between tyrosine intake and higher cognitive performance (measured with Trail Making Test - TMT), and 3) whether LC signal intensity relates to an objective measure of brain maintenance (BrainPAD). METHODS The analyses included 398 3T MRIs of healthy participants from the Berlin Aging Study II to investigate the relationship between LC signal intensity and habitual dietary tyrosine intake-daily average (HD-Tyr-IDA - measured with Food Frequency Questionnaire - FFQ). As a control procedure, the same analyses were repeated on other main seeds of the neuromodulators' subcortical system (Dorsal and Medial Raphe, Ventral Tegmental Area and Nucleus Basalis of Meynert). In the same way, the relationships between the five nuclei and BrainPAD were tested. RESULTS Results show that HD-Tyr-IDA is positively associated with LC signal intensity. Similarly, LC disproportionally relates to better brain maintenance (BrainPAD). Mediation analyses reveal that only LC, relative to the other nuclei tested, mediates the relationship between HD-Tyr-IDA I and performance in the TMT and between HD-Tyr-IDA and BrainPAD. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide the first evidence linking tyrosine intake with LC-NA system signal intensity and its correlation with neuropsychological performance. This study strengthens the role of diet for maintaining brain and cognitive health and supports the noradrenergic theory of cognitive reserve. Within this framework, adequate tyrosine intake might increase the resilience of LC-NA system functioning, by preventing degeneration and supporting noradrenergic metabolism required for LC function and neuropsychological performance.
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- E R G Plini
- Emanuele RG Plini, Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ Dublin, Ireland,
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Demuth I, Düzel S, Vetter V, Drewelies J, Sommerer Y, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Gerstorf D, Bertram L. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METABOLIC HEALTH AND 5 EPIGENETIC CLOCKS IN THE BERLIN AGING STUDY II (BASE-II). Innov Aging 2022. [PMCID: PMC9765848 DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igac059.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
The diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (MetS) relies on cut-off values for five cardiovascular risk factors, three of which must be met to make the diagnosis. While this approach has certain advantages in the clinical setting, it only allows a binary classification relying on cut-off values. Thus, individuals receiving the same MetS diagnosis may differ in terms of disease severity. We have recently developed a continuous measure of the metabolic load (MetL) that was calculated as a latent factor from indicators that are used to diagnose the MetS enabling a more differentiated assessment. DNA methylation age acceleration (DNAmAA) is a widely accepted biomarker of aging which can be derived from a variety of epigenetic clocks. However, it is still unclear which aspects of aging these biomarkers represent best. Aim of the current study was to evaluate whether and how the MetS and MetL relate to DNAmAA derived from five epigenetic clocks (7-CpG clock, Horvath’s clock, Hannum’s clock, PhenoAge, and GrimAge). MetS was diagnosed according to the AHA/IDF/NHLBI criteria (2009) and the latent MetL factor was extracted from a confirmatory factor analysis considering the same diagnostic parameters. DNAmAA estimated from PhenoAge and GrimAge were significantly associated with MetS (beta=0.036 and beta=0.063, both p<0.05) and MetL (both beta=0.009 and p<0.05) in regression analyses adjusted for age and gender including 1,100 participants from the follow-up assessments of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II, mean age 75.6 ±3.8 years). The results will be discussed with respect to clinical relevance in the context of current literature.
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- Ilja Demuth
- Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Dahl MJ, Bachman SL, Dutt S, Düzel S, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Werkle‐Bergner M, Mather M. Dopaminergic and noradrenergic integrity are differentially associated with late‐life memory performance. Alzheimers Dement 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/alz.068058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Martin J Dahl
- University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
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- University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research London United Kingdom
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- University Clinic Hamburg‐Eppendorf Hamburg Germany
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- University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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Carver RB, Fredheim NAG, Mowinckel AM, Ebmeier KP, Friedman BB, Rosness TA, Drevon CA, Suri S, Baaré WFC, Zsoldos E, Solé-Padullés C, Bartrés-Faz D, Ghisletta P, Nawijn L, Düzel S, Madsen KS, Fjell AM, Lindenberger U, Walhovd KB, Budin-Ljøsne I. People's interest in brain health testing: Findings from an international, online cross-sectional survey. Front Public Health 2022; 10:998302. [PMID: 36339192 PMCID: PMC9631023 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.998302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
Brain health entails mental wellbeing and cognitive health in the absence of brain disorders. The past decade has seen an explosion of tests, cognitive and biological, to predict various brain conditions, such as Alzheimer's Disease. In line with these current developments, we investigated people's willingness and reasons to-or not to-take a hypothetical brain health test to learn about risk of developing a brain disease, in a cross-sectional multilanguage online survey. The survey was part of the Global Brain Health Survey, open to the public from 4th June 2019 to 31st August 2020. Respondents were largely recruited via European brain councils and research organizations. 27,590 people responded aged 18 years or older and were predominantly women (71%), middle-aged or older (>40 years; 83%), and highly educated (69%). Responses were analyzed to explore the relationship between demographic variables and responses. Results We found high public interest in brain health testing: over 91% would definitely or probably take a brain health test and 86% would do so even if it gave information about a disease that cannot be treated or prevented. The main reason for taking a test was the ability to respond if one was found to be at risk of brain disease, such as changing lifestyle, seeking counseling or starting treatment. Higher interest in brain health testing was found in men, respondents with lower education levels and those with poor self-reported cognitive health. Conclusion High public interest in brain health and brain health testing in certain segments of society, coupled with an increase of commercial tests entering the market, is likely to put pressure on public health systems to inform the public about brain health testing in years to come.
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- Rebecca B. Carver
- Department of Communication, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway,*Correspondence: Rebecca B. Carver
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Reviews and Health Technology Assessments Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Institute Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Vitas AS, Oslo Science Park, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences & Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences & Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland,UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland,Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark,Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Binnewies J, Nawijn L, Brandmaier AM, Baaré WFC, Bartrés-Faz D, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Fjell AM, Han LKM, Knights E, Lindenberger U, Milaneschi Y, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Plachti A, Madsen KS, Solé-Padullés C, Suri S, Walhovd KB, Zsoldos E, Ebmeier KP, Penninx BWJH. Associations of depression and regional brain structure across the adult lifespan: Pooled analyses of six population-based and two clinical cohort studies in the European Lifebrain consortium. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 36:103180. [PMID: 36088843 PMCID: PMC9467888 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Major depressive disorder has been associated with lower prefrontal thickness and hippocampal volume, but it is unknown whether this association also holds for depressive symptoms in the general population. We investigated associations of depressive symptoms and depression status with brain structures across population-based and patient-control cohorts, and explored whether these associations are similar over the lifespan and across sexes. METHODS We included 3,447 participants aged 18-89 years from six population-based and two clinical patient-control cohorts of the European Lifebrain consortium. Cross-sectional meta-analyses using individual person data were performed for associations of depressive symptoms and depression status with FreeSurfer-derived thickness of bilateral rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) and medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC), and hippocampal and total grey matter volume (GMV), separately for population-based and clinical cohorts. RESULTS Across patient-control cohorts, depressive symptoms and presence of mild-to-severe depression were associated with lower mOFC thickness (rsymptoms = -0.15/ rstatus = -0.22), rACC thickness (rsymptoms = -0.20/ rstatus = -0.25), hippocampal volume (rsymptoms = -0.13/ rstatus = 0.13) and total GMV (rsymptoms = -0.21/ rstatus = -0.25). Effect sizes were slightly larger for presence of moderate-to-severe depression. Associations were similar across age groups and sex. Across population-based cohorts, no associations between depression and brain structures were observed. CONCLUSIONS Fitting with previous meta-analyses, depressive symptoms and depression status were associated with lower mOFC, rACC thickness, and hippocampal and total grey matter volume in clinical patient-control cohorts, although effect sizes were small. The absence of consistent associations in population-based cohorts with mostly mild depressive symptoms, suggests that significantly lower thickness and volume of the studied brain structures are only detectable in clinical populations with more severe depressive symptoms.
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- Julia Binnewies
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck, UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo & Vitas Ltd, Oslo Science Park, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck, UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck, UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Polk SE, Kleemeyer MM, Köhncke Y, Brandmaier AM, Bodammer NC, Misgeld C, Porst J, Wolfarth B, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Wenger E, Düzel S. Change in Latent Gray-Matter Structural Integrity Is Associated With Change in Cardiovascular Fitness in Older Adults Who Engage in At-Home Aerobic Exercise. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:852737. [PMID: 35655926 PMCID: PMC9152142 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.852737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
In aging humans, aerobic exercise interventions have been found to be associated with more positive or less negative changes in frontal and temporal brain areas, such as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and hippocampus, relative to no-exercise control conditions. However, individual measures such as gray-matter (GM) probability may afford less reliable and valid conclusions about maintenance or losses in structural brain integrity than a latent construct based on multiple indicators. Here, we established a latent factor of GM structural integrity based on GM probability assessed by voxel-based morphometry, magnetization transfer saturation, and mean diffusivity. Based on this latent factor, we investigated changes in structural brain integrity during a six-month exercise intervention in brain regions previously reported in studies using volumetric approaches. Seventy-five healthy, previously sedentary older adults aged 63–76 years completed an at-home intervention study in either an exercise group (EG; n = 40) or in an active control group (ACG; n = 35). Measures of peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) taken before and after the intervention revealed a time-by-group interaction, with positive average change in the EG and no reliable mean change in the ACG. Significant group differences in structural brain integrity changes were observed in the right and left ACC, right posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), and left juxtapositional lobule cortex (JLC). In all instances, average changes in the EG did not differ reliably from zero, whereas average changes in the ACG were negative, pointing to maintenance of structural brain integrity in the EG, and to losses in the ACG. Significant individual differences in change were observed for right ACC and left JLC. Following up on these differences, we found that exercising participants with greater fitness gains also showed more positive changes in structural integrity. We discuss the benefits and limitations of a latent-factor approach to changes in structural brain integrity, and conclude that aerobic fitness interventions are likely to contribute to brain maintenance in old age.
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- Sarah E. Polk
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE), Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Sarah E. Polk,
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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Budin-Ljøsne I, Mowinckel AM, Friedman BB, Ebmeier KP, Drevon CA, Carver RB, Zsoldos E, Fredheim NAG, Sørensen Ø, Baaré WFC, Madsen KS, Fjell AM, Kievit RA, Ghisletta P, Bartrés-Faz D, Nawijn L, Solé-Padullés C, Walhovd KB, Düzel S, Zasyekina L, Iulita MF, Ferretti MT. Public perceptions of brain health: an international, online cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e057999. [PMID: 35437254 PMCID: PMC9016409 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES To investigate public perspectives on brain health. DESIGN Cross-sectional multilanguage online survey. SETTING Lifebrain posted the survey on its website and social media and shared it with stakeholders. The survey was open from 4 June 2019 to 31 August 2020. PARTICIPANTS n=27 590 aged ≥18 years from 81 countries in five continents completed the survey. The respondents were predominantly women (71%), middle aged (41-60 years; 37%) or above (>60 years; 46%), highly educated (69%) and resided in Europe (98%). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Respondents' views were assessed regarding factors that may influence brain health, life periods considered important to look after the brain and diseases and disorders associated with the brain. We run exploratory linear models at a 99% level of significance to assess correlates of the outcome variables, adjusting for likely confounders in a targeted fashion. RESULTS Of all significant effects, the respondents recognised the impact of lifestyle factors on brain health but had relatively less awareness of the role socioeconomic factors might play. Most respondents rated all life periods as important for the brain (95%-96%), although the prenatal period was ranked significantly lower (84%). Equally, women and highly educated respondents more often rated factors and life periods to be important for brain health. Ninety-nine per cent of respondents associated Alzheimer's disease and dementia with the brain. The respondents made a connection between mental health and the brain, and mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression were significantly more often considered to be associated with the brain than neurological disorders such as stroke and Parkinson's disease. Few respondents (<32%) associated cancer, hypertension, diabetes and arthritis with the brain. CONCLUSIONS Differences in perceptions of brain health were noted among specific segments of the population. Policies providing information about brain-friendly health behaviours and targeting people less likely to have relevant experience may be needed.
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Vitas AS, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Communication, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, København, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, København, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of General and Clinical Psychology, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Luc'k, Ukraine
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Düzel S, Drewelies J, Polk SE, Misgeld C, Porst J, Wolfarth B, Kühn S, Brandmaier AM, Wenger E. No Evidence for a Boost in Psychosocial Functioning in Older Age After a 6-Months Physical Exercise Intervention. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:825454. [PMID: 35360285 PMCID: PMC8963719 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.825454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The beneficial effects of physical exercise on physical health and cognitive functioning have been repeatedly shown. However, evidence of its effect on psychosocial functioning in healthy adults is still scarce or inconclusive. One limitation of many studies examining this link is their reliance on correlational approaches or specific subpopulations, such as clinical populations. The present study investigated the effects of a physical exercise intervention on key factors of psychosocial functioning, specifically well-being, stress, loneliness, and future time perspective. We used data from healthy, previously sedentary older adults (N = 132) who participated in a 6-month at-home intervention, either engaging in aerobic exercise or as part of a control group who participated in foreign language-learning or reading of selected native-language literature. Before and after the intervention, comprehensive cardiovascular pulmonary testing and a psychosocial questionnaire were administered. The exercise group showed significantly increased fitness compared to the control group. Contrary to expectations, however, we did not find evidence for a beneficial effect of this fitness improvement on any of the four domains of psychosocial functioning we assessed. This may be due to pronounced stability of such psychological traits in older age, especially in older adults who show high levels of well-being initially. Alternatively, it may be that the well-documented beneficial effects of physical exercise on brain structure and function, as well as cognition differ markedly from beneficial effects on psychosocial functioning. While aerobic exercise may be the driving factor for the former, positive effects on the latter may only be invoked by other aspects of exercise, for example, experiences of mastery or a feeling of community.
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- Sandra Düzel
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Neuronal Plasticity Working Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- *Correspondence: Elisabeth Wenger,
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Solé-Padullés C, Macià D, Andersson M, Stiernstedt M, Pudas S, Düzel S, Zsoldos E, Ebmeier KP, Binnewies J, Drevon CA, Brandmaier AM, Mowinckel AM, Fjell AM, Madsen KS, Baaré WFC, Lindenberger U, Nyberg L, Walhovd KB, Bartrés-Faz D. No Association Between Loneliness, Episodic Memory and Hippocampal Volume Change in Young and Healthy Older Adults: A Longitudinal European Multicenter Study. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:795764. [PMID: 35283753 PMCID: PMC8905540 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.795764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Loneliness is most prevalent during adolescence and late life and has been associated with mental health disorders as well as with cognitive decline during aging. Associations between longitudinal measures of loneliness and verbal episodic memory and brain structure should thus be investigated. Methods We sought to determine associations between loneliness and verbal episodic memory as well as loneliness and hippocampal volume trajectories across three longitudinal cohorts within the Lifebrain Consortium, including children, adolescents (N = 69, age range 10-15 at baseline examination) and older adults (N = 1468 over 60). We also explored putative loneliness correlates of cortical thinning across the entire cortical mantle. Results Loneliness was associated with worsening of verbal episodic memory in one cohort of older adults. Specifically, reporting medium to high levels of loneliness over time was related to significantly increased memory loss at follow-up examinations. The significance of the loneliness-memory change association was lost when eight participants were excluded after having developed dementia in any of the subsequent follow-up assessments. No significant structural brain correlates of loneliness were found, neither hippocampal volume change nor cortical thinning. Conclusion In the present longitudinal European multicenter study, the association between loneliness and episodic memory was mainly driven by individuals exhibiting progressive cognitive decline, which reinforces previous findings associating loneliness with cognitive impairment and dementia.
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- Cristina Solé-Padullés
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,*Correspondence: Cristina Solé-Padullés,
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic – University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Vitas Ltd., Oslo, Norway,Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark,Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden,Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Wang Y, Amlien IK, Mowinckel AM, Lindenberger U, Düzel S, Bartrés-Faz D, Ebmeier KP, Drevon CA, Baaré WFC, Ghisletta P, Johansen LB, Kievit RA, Henson RN, Madsen KS, Nyberg L, R Harris J, Solé-Padullés C, Pudas S, Sørensen Ø, Westerhausen R, Zsoldos E, Nawijn L, Lyngstad TH, Suri S, Penninx B, Rogeberg OJ, Brandmaier AM. Education and Income Show Heterogeneous Relationships to Lifespan Brain and Cognitive Differences Across European and US Cohorts. Cereb Cortex 2022; 32:839-854. [PMID: 34467389 PMCID: PMC8841563 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Higher socio-economic status (SES) has been proposed to have facilitating and protective effects on brain and cognition. We ask whether relationships between SES, brain volumes and cognitive ability differ across cohorts, by age and national origin. European and US cohorts covering the lifespan were studied (4-97 years, N = 500 000; 54 000 w/brain imaging). There was substantial heterogeneity across cohorts for all associations. Education was positively related to intracranial (ICV) and total gray matter (GM) volume. Income was related to ICV, but not GM. We did not observe reliable differences in associations as a function of age. SES was more strongly related to brain and cognition in US than European cohorts. Sample representativity varies, and this study cannot identify mechanisms underlying differences in associations across cohorts. Differences in neuroanatomical volumes partially explained SES-cognition relationships. SES was more strongly related to ICV than to GM, implying that SES-cognition relations in adulthood are less likely grounded in neuroprotective effects on GM volume in aging. The relatively stronger SES-ICV associations rather are compatible with SES-brain volume relationships being established early in life, as ICV stabilizes in childhood. The findings underscore that SES has no uniform association with, or impact on, brain and cognition.
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- Kristine B Walhovd
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 0424, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 0424, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin D-14195, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Vitas AS, Oslo 0349, Norway
- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Brig 3900, Switzerland
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Geneva 1212, Switzerland
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research and Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Glostrup 2600, Denmark
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen 6500 GL, The Netherlands
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1799, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Division for Health Data and Digitalisation, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo 0213, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, The Netherlands
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin D-14195, Germany
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Porat S, Sibilia F, Yoon J, Shi Y, Dahl MJ, Werkle-Bergner M, Düzel S, Bodammer N, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Mather M. Age Differences in Diffusivity in the Locus Coeruleus and its Ascending Noradrenergic Tract. Neuroimage 2022; 251:119022. [PMID: 35192943 PMCID: PMC9183949 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
The noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) is a small brainstem nucleus that promotes arousal and attention. Recent studies have examined the microstructural properties of the LC using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and found unexpected age-related differences in fractional anisotropy - a measure of white matter integrity. Here, we used two datasets (Berlin Aging Study-II, N = 301, the Leipzig Study for Mind-Body-Emotion Interactions, N = 220), to replicate published findings and expand them by investigating diffusivity in the LC’s ascending noradrenergic bundle. In younger adults, LC fractional anisotropy was significantly lower, compared to older adults. However, in the LC’s ascending noradrenergic bundle, we observed significantly higher fractional anisotropy in younger adults, relative to older adults. These findings indicate that diffusivity in the LC versus the ascending noradrenergic bundle are both susceptible to structural changes in aging that have opposing effects on fractional anisotropy.
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Vidal-Pineiro D, Wang Y, Krogsrud SK, Amlien IK, Baaré WFC, Bartres-Faz D, Bertram L, Brandmaier AM, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Ebmeier K, Henson RN, Junqué C, Kievit RA, Kühn S, Leonardsen E, Lindenberger U, Madsen KS, Magnussen F, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Roe JM, Segura B, Smith SM, Sørensen Ø, Suri S, Westerhausen R, Zalesky A, Zsoldos E, Walhovd KB, Fjell A. Correction: Individual variations in 'Brain Age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change. eLife 2022; 11:79475. [PMID: 35470797 PMCID: PMC9042230 DOI: 10.7554/elife.79475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Jawinski P, Markett S, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D, Lindenberger U, Gaser C, Kühn S. Linking Brain Age Gap to Mental and Physical Health in the Berlin Aging Study II. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:791222. [PMID: 35936763 PMCID: PMC9355695 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.791222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
From a biological perspective, humans differ in the speed they age, and this may manifest in both mental and physical health disparities. The discrepancy between an individual's biological and chronological age of the brain ("brain age gap") can be assessed by applying machine learning techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Here, we examined the links between brain age gap and a broad range of cognitive, affective, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and physical health variables in up to 335 adults of the Berlin Aging Study II. Brain age gap was assessed using a validated prediction model that we previously trained on MRI scans of 32,634 UK Biobank individuals. Our statistical analyses revealed overall stronger evidence for a link between higher brain age gap and less favorable health characteristics than expected under the null hypothesis of no effect, with 80% of the tested associations showing hypothesis-consistent effect directions and 23% reaching nominal significance. The most compelling support was observed for a cluster covering both cognitive performance variables (episodic memory, working memory, fluid intelligence, digit symbol substitution test) and socioeconomic variables (years of education and household income). Furthermore, we observed higher brain age gap to be associated with heavy episodic drinking, higher blood pressure, and higher blood glucose. In sum, our results point toward multifaceted links between brain age gap and human health. Understanding differences in biological brain aging may therefore have broad implications for future informed interventions to preserve mental and physical health in old age.
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- Philippe Jawinski
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Lipid Metabolism, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Lipid Metabolism, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany.,Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Structural Brain Mapping Group, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Dahl MJ, Bachman SL, Dutt S, Düzel S, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Werkle‐Bergner M, Mather M. Multimodal assessment of locus coeruleus integrity is associated with late‐life memory performance. Alzheimers Dement 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/alz.056330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Martin J Dahl
- University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
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- University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research London United Kingdom
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- University Clinic Hamburg‐Eppendorf Hamburg Germany
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- University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA
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Grydeland H, Sederevičius D, Wang Y, Bartrés-Faz D, Bertram L, Dobricic V, Düzel S, Ebmeier KP, Lindenberger U, Nyberg L, Pudas S, Sexton CE, Solé-Padullés C, Sørensen Ø, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM. Self-reported sleep relates to microstructural hippocampal decline in ß-amyloid positive Adults beyond genetic risk. Sleep 2021; 44:zsab110. [PMID: 33912975 PMCID: PMC8598196 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES A critical role linking sleep with memory decay and β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation, two markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, may be played by hippocampal integrity. We tested the hypotheses that worse self-reported sleep relates to decline in memory and intra-hippocampal microstructure, including in the presence of Aβ. METHODS Two-hundred and forty-three cognitively healthy participants, aged 19-81 years, completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index once, and two diffusion tensor imaging sessions, on average 3 years apart, allowing measures of decline in intra-hippocampal microstructure as indexed by increased mean diffusivity. We measured memory decay at each imaging session using verbal delayed recall. One session of positron emission tomography, in 108 participants above 44 years of age, yielded 23 Aβ positive. Genotyping enabled control for APOE ε4 status, and polygenic scores for sleep and AD, respectively. RESULTS Worse global sleep quality and sleep efficiency related to more rapid reduction of hippocampal microstructure over time. Focusing on efficiency (the percentage of time in bed at night spent asleep), the relation was stronger in presence of Aβ accumulation, and hippocampal integrity decline mediated the relation with memory decay. The results were not explained by genetic risk for sleep efficiency or AD. CONCLUSIONS Worse sleep efficiency related to decline in hippocampal microstructure, especially in the presence of Aβ accumulation, and Aβ might link poor sleep and memory decay. As genetic risk did not account for the associations, poor sleep efficiency might constitute a risk marker for AD, although the driving causal mechanisms remain unknown.
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- Håkon Grydeland
- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), Institutes of Neurogenetics and Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), Institutes of Neurogenetics and Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and London, UK
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Vidal-Pineiro D, Wang Y, Krogsrud SK, Amlien IK, Baaré WF, Bartres-Faz D, Bertram L, Brandmaier AM, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Ebmeier K, Henson RN, Junqué C, Kievit RA, Kühn S, Leonardsen E, Lindenberger U, Madsen KS, Magnussen F, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Roe JM, Segura B, Smith SM, Sørensen Ø, Suri S, Westerhausen R, Zalesky A, Zsoldos E, Walhovd KB, Fjell A. Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change. eLife 2021; 10:69995. [PMID: 34756163 PMCID: PMC8580481 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain age is a widely used index for quantifying individuals’ brain health as deviation from a normative brain aging trajectory. Higher-than-expected brain age is thought partially to reflect above-average rate of brain aging. Here, we explicitly tested this assumption in two independent large test datasets (UK Biobank [main] and Lifebrain [replication]; longitudinal observations ≈ 2750 and 4200) by assessing the relationship between cross-sectional and longitudinal estimates of brain age. Brain age models were estimated in two different training datasets (n ≈ 38,000 [main] and 1800 individuals [replication]) based on brain structural features. The results showed no association between cross-sectional brain age and the rate of brain change measured longitudinally. Rather, brain age in adulthood was associated with the congenital factors of birth weight and polygenic scores of brain age, assumed to reflect a constant, lifelong influence on brain structure from early life. The results call for nuanced interpretations of cross-sectional indices of the aging brain and question their validity as markers of ongoing within-person changes of the aging brain. Longitudinal imaging data should be preferred whenever the goal is to understand individual change trajectories of brain and cognition in aging. Scientists who study the brain and aging are keen to find an effective way to measure brain health, which could help identify people at risk for dementia or memory problems. One popular marker is ‘brain age’. This measurement uses a brain scan to estimate a person’s chronological age, then compares the estimated brain age to the person’s actual age to determine whether their brain is aging faster or slower than expected for their age. However, since brain age relies on one brain scan taken at one point in time, it is not clear whether it really measures brain aging or if it might capture brain differences that have been present throughout the individual’s life. Studies comparing individual brain scans over several years would be necessary to know for sure. Now, Vidal-Piñeiro et al. show that the brain-age measurement does not reflect faster brain aging. In the experiments, the researchers compared repeated brain scans of thousands of individuals over 40 years of age. The experiments showed that deviations from normative brain age detected in a single scan reflected early life differences more than changes in the brain over time. For example, people with older-looking brains were more likely to have had a low birth weight or to have a combination of genes associated with having an older looking brain. Vidal-Piñeiro et al. show that brain age mostly reflects a pre-existing brain condition rather than brain aging. The experiments also suggest that genetics and early brain development likely have a strong impact on brain health throughout life. Future studies trying to test or develop brain-aging measurements should use serial measurements to track brain changes over time.
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- Didac Vidal-Pineiro
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona; Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lubeck, Germany
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Nutrition, Inst Basic Med Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo & Vitas Ltd, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona; Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging, Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Physiology Section and Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona; Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN FMRIB), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Departments of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Section for Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and IT, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Departments of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of radiology and nuclear medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of radiology and nuclear medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Karalija N, Köhncke Y, Düzel S, Bertram L, Papenberg G, Demuth I, Lill CM, Johansson J, Riklund K, Lövdén M, Bäckman L, Nyberg L, Lindenberger U, Brandmaier AM. A common polymorphism in the dopamine transporter gene predicts working memory performance and in vivo dopamine integrity in aging. Neuroimage 2021; 245:118707. [PMID: 34742942 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Dopamine (DA) integrity is suggested as a potential cause of individual differences in working memory (WM) performance among older adults. Still, the principal dopaminergic mechanisms giving rise to WM differences remain unspecified. Here, 61 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, located in or adjacent to various dopamine-related genes, were assessed for their links to WM performance in a sample of 1313 adults aged 61-80 years from the Berlin Aging Study II. Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression was conducted to estimate associations between polymorphisms and WM. Rs40184 in the DA transporter gene, SLC6A3, showed allelic group differences in WM, with T-carriers performing better than C homozygotes (p<0.01). This finding was replicated in an independent sample from the Cognition, Brain, and Aging study (COBRA; baseline: n = 181, ages: 64-68 years; 5-year follow up: n = 129). In COBRA, in vivo DA integrity was measured with 11C-raclopride and positron emission tomography. Notably, WM as well as in vivo DA integrity was higher for rs40184 T-carriers at baseline (p<0.05 for WM and caudate and hippocampal D2-receptor availability) and at the 5-year follow-up (p<0.05 for WM and hippocampal D2 availability). Our findings indicate that individual differences in DA transporter function contribute to differences in WM performance in old age, presumably by regulating DA availability.
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- Nina Karalija
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Umeå center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Solna, Sweden
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Umeå center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Solna, Sweden
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- Umeå center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and London, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and London, UK
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Bender AR, Brandmaier AM, Düzel S, Keresztes A, Pasternak O, Lindenberger U, Kühn S. Hippocampal Subfields and Limbic White Matter Jointly Predict Learning Rate in Older Adults. Cereb Cortex 2021; 30:2465-2477. [PMID: 31800016 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Age-related memory impairments have been linked to differences in structural brain parameters, including cerebral white matter (WM) microstructure and hippocampal (HC) volume, but their combined influences are rarely investigated. In a population-based sample of 337 older participants aged 61-82 years (Mage = 69.66, SDage = 3.92 years), we modeled the independent and joint effects of limbic WM microstructure and HC subfield volumes on verbal learning. Participants completed a verbal learning task of recall over five repeated trials and underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), including structural and diffusion scans. We segmented three HC subregions on high-resolution MRI data and sampled mean fractional anisotropy (FA) from bilateral limbic WM tracts identified via deterministic fiber tractography. Using structural equation modeling, we evaluated the associations between learning rate and latent factors representing FA sampled from limbic WM tracts, and HC subfield volumes, and their latent interaction. Results showed limbic WM and the interaction of HC and WM-but not HC volume alone-predicted verbal learning rates. Model decomposition revealed HC volume is only positively associated with learning rate in individuals with higher WM anisotropy. We conclude that the structural characteristics of limbic WM regions and HC volume jointly contribute to verbal learning in older adults.
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- Andrew R Bender
- Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Neurology and Ophthalmology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.,Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, D-14195 Berlin, Germany and London, UK WC1B 5EH
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.,Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1053 Budapest, Hungary
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, D-14195 Berlin, Germany and London, UK WC1B 5EH.,European University Institute, I-50014. San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Fjell AM, Grydeland H, Wang Y, Amlien IK, Bartres-Faz D, Brandmaier AM, Düzel S, Elman J, Franz CE, Håberg AK, Kietzmann TC, Kievit RA, Kremen WS, Krogsrud SK, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Macía D, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Panizzon MS, Solé-Padullés C, Sørensen Ø, Westerhausen R, Walhovd KB. The genetic organization of longitudinal subcortical volumetric change is stable throughout the lifespan. eLife 2021; 10:66466. [PMID: 34180395 PMCID: PMC8260220 DOI: 10.7554/elife.66466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Development and aging of the cerebral cortex show similar topographic organization and are governed by the same genes. It is unclear whether the same is true for subcortical regions, which follow fundamentally different ontogenetic and phylogenetic principles. We tested the hypothesis that genetically governed neurodevelopmental processes can be traced throughout life by assessing to which degree brain regions that develop together continue to change together through life. Analyzing over 6000 longitudinal MRIs of the brain, we used graph theory to identify five clusters of coordinated development, indexed as patterns of correlated volumetric change in brain structures. The clusters tended to follow placement along the cranial axis in embryonic brain development, suggesting continuity from prenatal stages, and correlated with cognition. Across independent longitudinal datasets, we demonstrated that developmental clusters were conserved through life. Twin-based genetic correlations revealed distinct sets of genes governing change in each cluster. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms-based analyses of 38,127 cross-sectional MRIs showed a similar pattern of genetic volume–volume correlations. In conclusion, coordination of subcortical change adheres to fundamental principles of lifespan continuity and genetic organization.
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- Anders Martin Fjell
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Behavioral Genomics Twin Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Behavioral Genomics Twin Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.,Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Center for Behavioral Genomics Twin Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, United States
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Behavioral Genomics Twin Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Demuth I, Banszerus V, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Seeland U, Spira D, Tse E, Braun J, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Bertram L, Thiel A, Lindenberger U, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Gerstorf D. Cohort profile: follow-up of a Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) subsample as part of the GendAge study. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e045576. [PMID: 34162642 PMCID: PMC8230995 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE The study 'Sex- and gender-sensitive prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in older adults in Germany', the GendAge study, focuses on major risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and on the development of major outcomes from intermediate phenotypes in the context of sex and gender differences. It is based on a follow-up examination of a subsample (older group) of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). PARTICIPANTS The GendAge study assessments took place between 22 June 2018 and 10 March 2020. A total of 1100 participants (older BASE-II subsample, aged ≥65 years) with baseline data assessed at least by one of the BASE-II partner sites were investigated in the follow-up. These participants had a mean age of 75.6 years (SD ±3.8), with a mean follow-up at 7.4 years (SD ±1.5). FINDINGS TO DATE Data from different domains such as internal medicine, geriatrics, immunology and psychology were collected, with a focus on cardiometabolic diseases and in the context of sex and gender differences. Diabetes mellitus type 2 was reported by 15.6% and 8.6% of men and women, respectively. In contrast, this disease was diagnosed in 20.7% of men and 13.3% of women, indicating that a substantial proportion of almost 30% was unaware of the disease. Echocardiography revealed that left ventricular ejection fraction was higher in women than in men, in agreement with previous reports. FUTURE PLANS A gender questionnaire assessing sociocultural aspects implemented as part of the follow-up described here will allow to calculate a gender score and its evaluation based on the newly collected data. At the same time, the other BASE-II research foci established over the past 10 years will be continued and strengthened by the BASE-II transition into a longitudinal study with follow-up data on the older subsample. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER DRKS00016157.
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- Ilja Demuth
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health; Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Berlin, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Si-M / "Der Simulierte Mensch" a science framework of Technische, Universitat Berlin andCharité - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Dept of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Si-M / "Der Simulierte Mensch" a science framework of Technische, Universitat Berlin andCharité - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Drewelies J, Eibich P, Düzel S, Kühn S, Krekel C, Goebel J, Kolbe J, Demuth I, Lindenberger U, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D. Location, Location, Location: The Role of Objective Neighborhood Characteristics for Perceptions of Control. Gerontology 2021; 68:214-223. [PMID: 34000719 DOI: 10.1159/000515634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). METHODS We combine self-report data about perceptions of control obtained from participants in the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 507, 60-87 years, 51% women) with multisource geo-referenced indicators of neighborhood characteristics using linear regression models. RESULTS Findings indicate that objective neighborhood characteristics (i.e., unemployment rate) are indeed tied to perceptions of control, in particular, how much control participants feel others have over their lives. Including neighborhood characteristics in part doubled the amount of explained variance compared with a reference model covarying for demographic characteristics only (from R2 = 0.017 to R2 = 0.030 for internal control beliefs; R2 = 0.056 to R2 = 0.102 for external control beliefs in chance; R2 = 0.006 to R2 = 0.030 for external control beliefs in powerful others). DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION Findings highlight the importance of access to neighborhood resources for control beliefs across old age and can inform interventions to build up neighborhood characteristics which might be especially helpful in residential areas with high unemployment.
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- Johanna Drewelies
- Department for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London, UK
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Economics and Law, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and, London, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Fjell AM, Sørensen Ø, Amlien IK, Bartrés-Faz D, Bros DM, Buchmann N, Demuth I, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Ebmeier KP, Idland AV, Kietzmann TC, Kievit R, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Price D, Sexton CE, Solé-Padullés C, Pudas S, Sederevicius D, Suri S, Wagner G, Watne LO, Westerhausen R, Zsoldos E, Walhovd KB. Self-reported sleep relates to hippocampal atrophy across the adult lifespan: results from the Lifebrain consortium. Sleep 2021; 43:5628807. [PMID: 31738420 PMCID: PMC7215271 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Objectives Poor sleep is associated with multiple age-related neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. The hippocampus plays a special role in sleep and sleep-dependent cognition, and accelerated hippocampal atrophy is typically seen with higher age. Hence, it is critical to establish how the relationship between sleep and hippocampal volume loss unfolds across the adult lifespan. Methods Self-reported sleep measures and MRI-derived hippocampal volumes were obtained from 3105 cognitively normal participants (18–90 years) from major European brain studies in the Lifebrain consortium. Hippocampal volume change was estimated from 5116 MRIs from 1299 participants for whom longitudinal MRIs were available, followed up to 11 years with a mean interval of 3.3 years. Cross-sectional analyses were repeated in a sample of 21,390 participants from the UK Biobank. Results No cross-sectional sleep—hippocampal volume relationships were found. However, worse sleep quality, efficiency, problems, and daytime tiredness were related to greater hippocampal volume loss over time, with high scorers showing 0.22% greater annual loss than low scorers. The relationship between sleep and hippocampal atrophy did not vary across age. Simulations showed that the observed longitudinal effects were too small to be detected as age-interactions in the cross-sectional analyses. Conclusions Worse self-reported sleep is associated with higher rates of hippocampal volume decline across the adult lifespan. This suggests that sleep is relevant to understand individual differences in hippocampal atrophy, but limited effect sizes call for cautious interpretation.
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- Anders M Fjell
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cardiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Germany
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- Vitas AS, Research Park, Gaustadalleen 21, 0349, Oslo and 6 University of Oslo, Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Medicine/University of Oslo, Norway
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.,Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.,Global Brain Health Institute, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, CA.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Psychiatric Brain and Body Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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Friedman BB, Suri S, Solé-Padullés C, Düzel S, Drevon CA, Baaré WFC, Bartrés-Faz D, Fjell AM, Johansen-Berg H, Madsen KS, Nyberg L, Penninx BWJH, Sexton C, Walhovd KB, Zsoldos E, Budin-Ljøsne I. Are People Ready for Personalized Brain Health? Perspectives of Research Participants in the Lifebrain Consortium. Gerontologist 2021; 60:1050-1059. [PMID: 31682729 PMCID: PMC7427479 DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnz155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background and Objectives A healthy brain is central to physical and mental well-being. In this multi-site, qualitative study, we investigated views and attitudes of adult participants in brain research studies on the brain and personalized brain health as well as interest in maintaining a healthy brain. Design and Methods We conducted individual interviews with 44 adult participants in brain research cohorts of the Lifebrain consortium in Spain, Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and coded using a cross-country codebook. The interview data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results Most participants did not focus on their own brain health and expressed uncertainty regarding how to maintain it. Those actively focusing on brain health often picked one specific strategy like diet or memory training. The participants were interested in taking brain health tests to learn about their individual risk of developing brain diseases, and were willing to take measures to maintain their brain health if personalized follow-up was provided and the measures had proven impact. The participants were interested in more information on brain health. No differences in responses were identified between age groups, sex, or countries. Discussion and Implications Concise, practical, personalized, and evidence-based information about the brain may promote brain health. Based on our findings, we have launched an ongoing global brain health survey to acquire more extensive, quantitative, and representative data on public perception of personalized brain health.
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- Barbara Bodorkos Friedman
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Vitas AS, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre,Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Neuroscience Institute, University of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå Universitet, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK.,Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.,Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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Roe JM, Vidal-Piñeiro D, Sørensen Ø, Brandmaier AM, Düzel S, Gonzalez HA, Kievit RA, Knights E, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Park DC, Pudas S, Rundle MM, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Westerhausen R. Asymmetric thinning of the cerebral cortex across the adult lifespan is accelerated in Alzheimer's disease. Nat Commun 2021; 12:721. [PMID: 33526780 PMCID: PMC7851164 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21057-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are associated with progressive brain disorganization. Although structural asymmetry is an organizing feature of the cerebral cortex it is unknown whether continuous age- and AD-related cortical degradation alters cortical asymmetry. Here, in multiple longitudinal adult lifespan cohorts we show that higher-order cortical regions exhibiting pronounced asymmetry at age ~20 also show progressive asymmetry-loss across the adult lifespan. Hence, accelerated thinning of the (previously) thicker homotopic hemisphere is a feature of aging. This organizational principle showed high consistency across cohorts in the Lifebrain consortium, and both the topological patterns and temporal dynamics of asymmetry-loss were markedly similar across replicating samples. Asymmetry-change was further accelerated in AD. Results suggest a system-wide dedifferentiation of the adaptive asymmetric organization of heteromodal cortex in aging and AD.
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- James M. Roe
- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.419526.d0000 0000 9859 7917Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.419526.d0000 0000 9859 7917Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- grid.5335.00000000121885934MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- grid.419526.d0000 0000 9859 7917Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany ,grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.419526.d0000 0000 9859 7917Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany ,grid.4372.20000 0001 2105 1091Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.12650.300000 0001 1034 3451Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging and Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas, Dallas, TX USA
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- grid.12650.300000 0001 1034 3451Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging and Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ,grid.55325.340000 0004 0389 8485Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ,grid.55325.340000 0004 0389 8485Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Bachman SL, Dahl MJ, Werkle-Bergner M, Düzel S, Forlim CG, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Mather M. Locus coeruleus MRI contrast is associated with cortical thickness in older adults. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 100:72-82. [PMID: 33508564 PMCID: PMC7920995 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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There is growing evidence that neuronal integrity of the noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) is important for later-life cognition. Less understood is how LC integrity relates to brain correlates of cognition, such as brain structure. Here, we examined the relationship between cortical thickness and a measure reflecting LC integrity in older (n = 229) and younger adults (n = 67). Using a magnetic resonance imaging sequence which yields high signal intensity in the LC, we assessed the contrast between signal intensity of the LC and that of neighboring pontine reference tissue. The Freesurfer software suite was used to quantify cortical thickness. LC contrast was positively related to cortical thickness in older adults, and this association was prominent in parietal, frontal, and occipital regions. Brain regions where LC contrast was related to cortical thickness include portions of the frontoparietal network which have been implicated in noradrenergically modulated cognitive functions. These findings provide novel evidence for a link between LC structure and cortical brain structure in later adulthood.
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- Shelby L Bachman
- Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Fjell AM, Sørensen Ø, Amlien IK, Bartrés-Faz D, Brandmaier AM, Buchmann N, Demuth I, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Ebmeier KP, Ghisletta P, Idland AV, Kietzmann TC, Kievit RA, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Magnussen F, Macià D, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Sexton CE, Solé-Padullés C, Pudas S, Roe JM, Sederevicius D, Suri S, Vidal-Piñeiro D, Wagner G, Watne LO, Westerhausen R, Zsoldos E, Walhovd KB. Poor Self-Reported Sleep is Related to Regional Cortical Thinning in Aging but not Memory Decline-Results From the Lifebrain Consortium. Cereb Cortex 2020; 31:1953-1969. [PMID: 33236064 PMCID: PMC7945023 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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We examined whether sleep quality and quantity are associated with cortical and memory changes in cognitively healthy participants across the adult lifespan. Associations between self-reported sleep parameters (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) and longitudinal cortical change were tested using five samples from the Lifebrain consortium (n = 2205, 4363 MRIs, 18–92 years). In additional analyses, we tested coherence with cell-specific gene expression maps from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, and relations to changes in memory performance. “PSQI # 1 Subjective sleep quality” and “PSQI #5 Sleep disturbances” were related to thinning of the right lateral temporal cortex, with lower quality and more disturbances being associated with faster thinning. The association with “PSQI #5 Sleep disturbances” emerged after 60 years, especially in regions with high expression of genes related to oligodendrocytes and S1 pyramidal neurons. None of the sleep scales were related to a longitudinal change in episodic memory function, suggesting that sleep-related cortical changes were independent of cognitive decline. The relationship to cortical brain change suggests that self-reported sleep parameters are relevant in lifespan studies, but small effect sizes indicate that self-reported sleep is not a good biomarker of general cortical degeneration in healthy older adults.
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- Anders M Fjell
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0188 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and London, UK
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- Department of Cardiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin, 12203 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Vitas AS, Research Park, Gaustadalleen 21, 0349 Oslo, Norway.,Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD UK
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Swiss Distance University Institute, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.,Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK.,Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 XZ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and London, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD UK.,Global Brain Health Institute, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Psychiatric Brain and Body Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0188 Oslo, Norway
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Köhncke Y, Düzel S, Sander MC, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Brandmaier AM. Hippocampal and Parahippocampal Gray Matter Structural Integrity Assessed by Multimodal Imaging Is Associated with Episodic Memory in Old Age. Cereb Cortex 2020; 31:1464-1477. [PMID: 33150357 PMCID: PMC7869080 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/30/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Maintained structural integrity of hippocampal and cortical gray matter may explain why some older adults show rather preserved episodic memory. However, viable measurement models for estimating individual differences in gray matter structural integrity are lacking; instead, findings rely on fallible single indicators of integrity. Here, we introduce multitrait–multimethod methodology to capture individual differences in gray matter integrity, based on multimodal structural imaging in a large sample of 1522 healthy adults aged 60–88 years from the Berlin Aging Study II, including 333 participants who underwent magnetic resonance imaging. Structural integrity factors expressed the common variance of voxel-based morphometry, mean diffusivity, and magnetization transfer ratio for each of four regions of interest: hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, prefrontal cortex, and precuneus. Except for precuneus, the integrity factors correlated with episodic memory. Associations with hippocampal and parahippocampal integrity persisted after controlling for age, sex, and education. Our results support the proposition that episodic memory ability in old age benefits from maintained structural integrity of hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus. Exploratory follow-up analyses on sex differences showed that this effect is restricted to men. Multimodal factors of structural brain integrity might help to improve our biological understanding of human memory aging.
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- Ylva Köhncke
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.,Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Gorbach T, Pudas S, Bartrés-Faz D, Brandmaier AM, Düzel S, Henson RN, Idland AV, Lindenberger U, Macià Bros D, Mowinckel AM, Solé-Padullés C, Sørensen Ø, Walhovd KB, Watne LO, Westerhausen R, Fjell AM, Nyberg L. Longitudinal association between hippocampus atrophy and episodic-memory decline in non-demented APOE ε4 carriers. Alzheimers Dement (Amst) 2020; 12:e12110. [PMID: 33015312 PMCID: PMC7521596 DOI: 10.1002/dad2.12110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele is the main genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), accelerated cognitive aging, and hippocampal atrophy, but its influence on the association between hippocampus atrophy and episodic-memory decline in non-demented individuals remains unclear. METHODS We analyzed longitudinal (two to six observations) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived hippocampal volumes and episodic memory from 748 individuals (55 to 90 years at baseline, 50% female) from the European Lifebrain consortium. RESULTS The change-change association for hippocampal volume and memory was significant only in ε4 carriers (N = 173, r = 0.21, P = .007; non-carriers: N = 467, r = 0.073, P = .117). The linear relationship was significantly steeper for the carriers [t(629) = 2.4, P = .013]. A similar trend toward a stronger change-change relation for carriers was seen in a subsample with more than two assessments. DISCUSSION These findings provide evidence for a difference in hippocampus-memory association between ε4 carriers and non-carriers, thus highlighting how genetic factors modulate the translation of the AD-related pathophysiological cascade into cognitive deficits.
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- Tetiana Gorbach
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology Umeå University Umeå Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging Umeå University Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology Umeå University Umeå Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging Umeå University Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research Berlin Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research Berlin Germany
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
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- Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine University of Oslo, Oslo Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research Berlin Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition University of Oslo, Oslo Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition University of Oslo, Oslo Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Oslo University Hospital, Oslo Norway
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition University of Oslo, Oslo Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition University of Oslo, Oslo Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Oslo University Hospital, Oslo Norway
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology Umeå University Umeå Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging Umeå University Umeå Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences Umeå University Umeå Sweden
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Kozik P, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Gerstorf D, Hoppmann CA. Future time perspective: Dimensions of opportunities, life, and time are differentially associated with physical health, cognitive functioning, and well-being in old age. Aging Ment Health 2020; 24:1487-1495. [PMID: 30966784 DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2019.1594159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Objective: The present study investigated the multidimensional nature of the future time perspective scale and dimension-specific associations with measures of physical health, cognitive functioning, and well-being.Method: Using data from the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 1,038, M age = 71 years, range = 61-88 years, 52% women), different models of future time perspective were compared using confirmatory factor analyses, and the best-fitting model was then used to explore dimension-specific associations with physical health, cognitive functioning, and well-being measures.Results: A model of future time perspective composed of a focus on opportunities, a focus on life, and a focus on time was found to have the best fit. An extended focus on opportunities was associated with stronger grip strength, more accurate memory, as well as higher life satisfaction and positive affect. An extended focus on time was associated with less accurate memory, lower negative affect, and greater life satisfaction. A focus on life was unrelated to study measures.Discussion: Findings suggest that future time perspective is multidimensional and that these dimensions are differentially associated with physical health, cognitive functioning, and well-being in old age.
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- Pavel Kozik
- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Budin-Ljøsne I, Friedman BB, Suri S, Solé-Padullés C, Düzel S, Drevon CA, Baaré WFC, Mowinckel AM, Zsoldos E, Madsen KS, Carver RB, Ghisletta P, Arnesen MR, Bartrés Faz D, Brandmaier AM, Fjell AM, Kvalbein A, Henson RN, Kievit RA, Nawijn L, Pochet R, Schnitzler A, Walhovd KB, Zasiekina L. The Global Brain Health Survey: Development of a Multi-Language Survey of Public Views on Brain Health. Front Public Health 2020; 8:387. [PMID: 32923418 PMCID: PMC7456866 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Background: Brain health is a multi-faceted concept used to describe brain physiology, cognitive function, mental health and well-being. Diseases of the brain account for one third of the global burden of disease and are becoming more prevalent as populations age. Diet, social interaction as well as physical and cognitive activity are lifestyle factors that can potentially influence facets of brain health. Yet, there is limited knowledge about the population's awareness of brain health and willingness to change lifestyle to maintain a healthy brain. This paper introduces the Global Brain Health Survey protocol, designed to assess people's perceptions of brain health and factors influencing brain health. Methods: The Global Brain Health Survey is an anonymous online questionnaire available in 14 languages to anyone above the age of 18 years. Questions focus on (1) willingness and motivation to maintain or improve brain health, (2) interest in learning more about individual brain health using standardized tests, and (3) interest in receiving individualized support to take care of own brain health. The survey questions were developed based on results from a qualitative interview study investigating brain health perceptions among participants in brain research studies. The survey includes 28 questions and takes 15–20 min to complete. Participants provide electronically informed consent prior to participation. The current survey wave was launched on June 4, 2019 and will close on August 31, 2020. We will provide descriptive statistics of samples distributions including analyses of differences as a function of age, gender, education, country of residence, and we will examine associations between items. The European Union funded Lifebrain project leads the survey in collaboration with national brain councils in Norway, Germany, and Belgium, Brain Foundations in the Netherlands and Sweden, the National University of Ostroh Academy and the Women's Brain Project. Discussion: Results from this survey will provide new insights in peoples' views on brain health, in particular, the extent to which the adoption of positive behaviors can be encouraged. The results will contribute to the development of policy recommendations for supporting population brain health, including measures tailored to individual needs, knowledge, motivations and life situations.
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- Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne
- Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Vitas AS, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Communication Department, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Methodology and Data Analysis Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Faculty of Psychology, Swiss Distance University Institute, Brig, Switzerland.,Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medicine, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Belgian Brain Council, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Medical Faculty, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, German Brain Council, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- The Ukrainian Psychotrauma Center, Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University, Lutsk, Ukraine
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Röhr F, Bucholtz N, Toepfer S, Norman K, Spira D, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Lill CM, Bertram L, Demuth I, Buchmann N, Düzel S. Relationship between Lipoprotein (a) and cognitive function - Results from the Berlin Aging Study II. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10636. [PMID: 32606300 PMCID: PMC7326928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66783-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
It has been suggested that an age-related loss of cognitive function might be driven by atherosclerotic effects associated with altered lipid patterns. However, the relationship between Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] and healthy cognitive aging has not yet been sufficiently investigated. For the current analysis we used the cross-sectional data of 1,380 Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) participants aged 60 years and older (52.2% women, mean age 68 ± 4 years). We employed the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD)-Plus test battery to establish latent factors representing continuous measures of domain specific cognitive functions. Regression models adjusted for APOE genotypes, lipid parameters and other risk factors for cognitive impairment were applied to assess the association between Lp(a) and performance in specific cognitive domains. Men within the lowest Lp(a)-quintile showed better cognitive performance in the cognitive domain executive functions and processing speed (p = 0.027). No significant results were observed in women. The results of the current analysis of predominantly healthy BASE-II participants point towards an association between low Lp(a) concentrations and better cognitive performance. However, evidence for this relationship resulting from the current analysis and the employment of a differentiated cognitive assessment is rather weak.
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- Franziska Röhr
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- German Institute of Human Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany
- Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Forschungsgruppe Geriatrie am EGZB, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Section for Translational Surgical Oncology and Biobanking, Department of Surgery, University of Lübeck and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, 23552, Lübeck, Germany
- Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, SW71, UK
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, Institutes of Neurogenetics and Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany.
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 10117, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Cardiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin (Campus Benjamin Franklin), Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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Bender AR, Brandmaier AM, Düzel S, Keresztes A, Pasternak O, Lindenberger U, Kühn S. Erratum: Hippocampal Subfields and Limbic White Matter Jointly Predict Learning Rate in Older Adults. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:3426. [PMID: 32118254 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Andrew R Bender
- Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Neurology and Ophthalmology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.,Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, D-14195 Berlin, Germany and London, UK WC1B 5EH
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary.,Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1053 Budapest, Hungary
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, D-14195 Berlin, Germany and London, UK WC1B 5EH.,European University Institute, I-50014. San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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Mantantzis K, Drewelies J, Wagner GG, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Lindenberger U, Düzel S, Gerstorf D. POOR GLUCOSE REGULATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER WELL-BEING AMONG OLDER MEN, BUT NOT WOMEN. Innov Aging 2019. [PMCID: PMC6840665 DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igz038.1626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Glucose regulation is a key aspect of healthy aging, but little is known about gluco-regulatory capacity and older adults’ well-being. In this study, we examine whether gluco-regulatory capacity is predictive of within-person age-related trajectories of three major well-being indicators. We applied growth models to multi-year longitudinal data obtained in the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 1437; age 60-89; 53% women) and used insulin resistance as an index of glucose regulation capacity. Poor glucose regulation was associated with lower levels of well-being in men, but not women. These associations among men emerged for two of the three well-being indicators, were maintained across old age, and were independent of the other cognitive and physical factors examined. We discuss how sexual dimorphism may have contributed to our findings, and conclude that our results provide initial evidence for the relevance of glucose regulation for quality of life among older men.
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité University Hospital, berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Kolodziejczak K, Rosada A, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Eibich P, Tegeler C, Wagner GG, Beier KM, Ram N, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Gerstorf D. Sexual activity, sexual thoughts, and intimacy among older adults: Links with physical health and psychosocial resources for successful aging. Psychol Aging 2019; 34:389-404. [DOI: 10.1037/pag0000347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Notthoff N, Drewelies J, Kazanecka P, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Norman K, Düzel S, Daumer M, Lindenberger U, Demuth I, Gerstorf D. Feeling older, walking slower-but only if someone's watching. Subjective age is associated with walking speed in the laboratory, but not in real life. Eur J Ageing 2018; 15:425-433. [PMID: 30532679 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-017-0450-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The huge inter-individual differences in how people age have prompted researchers to examine whether people's own perception of how old they are-their subjective age-could be a better predictor of relevant outcomes than their actual chronological age. Indeed, how old people feel does predict mortality hazards, and health-related measures such as walking speed may account for this association. In the present study, we extended this line of work by investigating whether subjective age also predicts walking speed and running speed in daily life or whether the predictive effects of subjective age for behavior manifest only within a controlled performance situation. We used data from 80 older participants (age range 62-82 years; M = 69.50, SD = 4.47) from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). Subjective age was assessed by self-report. Walking speed in the laboratory was measured with the Timed Up and Go test, and walking speed and running speed in real life were measured with an accelerometer. Results showed that compared to participants who felt older, those who felt younger than they actually were indeed walked faster in the laboratory, but they did not walk or run faster in real life. These patterns of results held when age, gender, education, BMI, comorbidity, depression, physical activity, and cognition were covaried. We discuss the role of stereotype threat in accounting for these results.
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- Nanna Notthoff
- 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- 3Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- 4Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research, e.V., Munich, Germany
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- 3Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Fiesole, Italy
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- 2Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- 1Department of Psychology, Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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Düzel S, Buchmann N, Drewelies J, Gerstorf D, Lindenberger U, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Norman K, Demuth I. Validation of a single factor representing the indicators of metabolic syndrome as a continuous measure of metabolic load and its association with health and cognitive function. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0208231. [PMID: 30540802 PMCID: PMC6291122 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors for cardiovascular disease associated with reduced physical fitness, higher disease burden, and impaired cognitive functions. Little is known about the operation of these risk factors in older adults when considered comprehensively without relying on the cut-off values of the single MetS components. The three main aims of the current study were to: (i) establish a latent metabolic load factor (MetL), using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and representing a continuous measure of MetL, defined by indicators that are commonly used to separate MetS groups from healthy individuals; (ii) examine the associations of this MetL factor with objective health, and cognitive function in men and women; (iii) compare the magnitude of these associations to those observed for the individual indicators used to define the MetL factor as well to the classical categorized MetS vs. non-MetS groups. The current analysis is based on cross-sectional data from 1,609 participants of the Berlin Aging Study II (mean age = 68.5 years, SD (3.7); 50.1% female). We applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to establish a latent MetL factor defined by the five indicators commonly used to diagnose MetS. The latent MetL factor was associated with physician-assessed morbidity and kidney function (estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR) in both men and women, but not with hand grip strength and lung function (Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 Second (FEV1)). In addition, we found a negative association between MetL and fluid intelligence among men. A continuous latent variable approach representing the common variance of MetS indicators is well suited to foster our understanding of human aging as a systemic phenomenon in which risk factors are operating on either side of the normal versus pathological divide.
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- Sandra Düzel
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Research Group on Geriatrics, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute of Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Dept. of Nutrition and Gerontology, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Medicine (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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Kühn S, Düzel S, Drewelies J, Gerstorf D, Lindenberger U, Gallinat J. Psychological and neural correlates of embitterment in old age. Psychol Trauma 2018; 10:51-57. [PMID: 29323526 DOI: 10.1037/tra0000287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) comprises a stress-related response to a negative life event that violates the belief system of the individual. Characteristic symptoms involve repeated intrusive thoughts, emotional arousal when reminded of the event, and decreases in well-being. METHOD Within the scope of the present study, embitterment was treated as a continuous rather than categorical concept, and we investigated its psychological and brain structural correlates in a sample of healthy older adults. RESULTS We found a negative association between the PTED self-rating score and self-reported well-being, life satisfaction, and future time perspective and a positive association with loneliness, perceived stress, chronic strain, and external control beliefs. We found no significant association between embitterment and brain regions that have been associated with stress exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex. This may emphasize the fundamental difference between PTED and PTSD. In a whole-brain analysis, we found a positive correlation between embitterment and gray matter volume in the precuneus and white matter volume in the bilateral uncinate fasciculus. CONCLUSIONS The precuneus and uncinate fasciculus are brain regions that have been related to episodic memory retrieval, matching well to the symptoms of intrusive thoughts and an overwhelming preoccupation with the event that caused the PTED. Further longitudinal research is needed to unravel whether these structural correlates represent preconditions or rather the consequence of embitterment. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Simone Kühn
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Clinic and Policlinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf
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Düzel S, Drewelies J, Gerstorf D, Demuth I, Kühn S, Lindenberger U. Facets of Subjective Health Horizons Are Differentially Linked to Brain Volume. GeroPsych 2018. [DOI: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Abstract. An active lifestyle including physical exercise and novelty processing is considered to promote brain health. Also, subjective future time perspectives (FTP) are known to shape motivation and goal-directed behavior, with links to objective health, well-being, and cognition. Nevertheless, the links between subjective FTP and brain physiology are largely unknown. We report data from 326 healthy older adults who completed the Subjective Health Horizon Questionnaire (SHH-Q) and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Voxel-based morphometry analyses revealed associations between (1) the SHH-Q Novelty factor and brain regions of the episodic memory network, and (2) the SHH-Q Body factor and regions contributing to the cortical representation of bodily states. Longitudinal and experimental data are needed to better understand the etiology of these links.
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- Sandra Düzel
- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
- European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy
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Kühn S, Düzel S, Eibich P, Krekel C, Wüstemann H, Kolbe J, Martensson J, Goebel J, Gallinat J, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U. In search of features that constitute an "enriched environment" in humans: Associations between geographical properties and brain structure. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11920. [PMID: 28931835 PMCID: PMC5607225 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12046-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Enriched environments elicit brain plasticity in animals. In humans it is unclear which environment is enriching. Living in a city has been associated with increased amygdala activity in a stress paradigm, and being brought up in a city with increased pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC) activity. We set out to identify geographical characteristics that constitute an enriched environment affecting the human brain. We used structural equation modelling on 341 older adults to establish three latent brain factors (amygdala, pACC and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)) to test the effects of forest, urban green, water and wasteland around the home address. Our results reveal a significant positive association between the coverage of forest and amygdala integrity. We conclude that forests may have salutogenic effects on the integrity of the amygdala. Since cross-sectional data does not allow causal inference it could also be that individuals with high structural integrity choose to live closer to forest.
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- Simone Kühn
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany. .,University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic and Policlinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Mohrenstrasse 58, 10117, Berlin, Germany.,University of Oxfor The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Mohrenstrasse 58, 10117, Berlin, Germany.,Paris School of Ecoß 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris, France.,Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK
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- Technical University Berlin, Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Landscape Economics, Straße des 17. Juni 145, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Technical University Berlin, Institute for Economics and Business Law, Econometrics and Business Statistics, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Mohrenstrasse 58, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf, Clinic and Policlinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,University of Oxfor The Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK.,Technical University Berlin, Institute for Economics and Business Law, Econometrics and Business Statistics, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.,European University Institute San Domenico, Fiesole, Italy
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Di Benedetto S, Müller L, Wenger E, Düzel S, Pawelec G. Contribution of neuroinflammation and immunity to brain aging and the mitigating effects of physical and cognitive interventions. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 75:114-128. [PMID: 28161508 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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It is widely accepted that the brain and the immune system continuously interact during normal as well as pathological functioning. Human aging is commonly accompanied by low-grade inflammation in both the immune and central nervous systems, thought to contribute to many age-related diseases. This review of the current literature focuses first on the normal neuroimmune interactions occurring in the brain, which promote learning, memory and neuroplasticity. Further, we discuss the protective and dynamic role of barriers to neuroimmune interactions, which have become clearer with the recent discovery of the meningeal lymphatic system. Next, we consider age-related changes of the immune system and possible deleterious influences of immunosenescence and low-grade inflammation (inflammaging) on neurodegenerative processes in the normally aging brain. We survey the major immunomodulators and neuroregulators in the aging brain and their highly tuned dynamic and reciprocal interactions. Finally, we consider our current understanding of how physical activity, as well as a combination of physical and cognitive interventions, may mediate anti-inflammatory effects and thus positively impact brain aging.
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- Svetlana Di Benedetto
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Center for Medical Research, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Tübingen, Waldhörnlestr. 22, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Medical Research, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Tübingen, Waldhörnlestr. 22, 72072 Tübingen, Germany
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