The Aging Mind:

Opportunities in Cognitive Research

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Paul C. Stern and Laura L. Carstensen, Editors; Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, National Research Council
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Possible new breakthroughs in understanding the aging mind that can be used to benefit older people are now emerging from research. This volume identifies the key scientific advances and the opportunities they bring. For example, science has learned ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-6	(skim)
1 Understanding the Aging Mind	7-13	(skim)
2 Neural Health	14-20	(skim)
3 Cognition in Context	21-36	(skim)
4 Structure of the Aging Mind	37-53	(skim)
5 Implementation	54-63	(skim)
References	64-80	(skim)
Appendix A: Age-Related Shifts in Neural Circuit Characteristics and Their Impact on Age-Related Cognitive Impairments	81-113	(skim)
Appendix B: Homeostatic Processes in Brain Aging: The Role of Apoptosis, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Regulating Healthy Neural Circuitry in the Aging Brain	114-143	(skim)
Appendix C: The Bearable Lightness of Aging: Judgment and Decision Processes in Older Adults	144-165	(skim)
Appendix D: Cognitive Aging and Adaptive Technologies	166-188	(skim)
Appendix E: Health Effects on Cognitive Aging	189-217	(skim)
Appendix F: Cultural Variations in Cognition: Implications for Aging Research	218-237	(skim)
Appendix G: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Nonhuman Primates: A Prospectus for Research on Aging	238-250	(skim)
Appendix H: Biographical Sketches	251-258	(skim)
Index	259-271	(skim)

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Possible new breakthroughs in understanding the aging mind that can be used to benefit older people are now emerging from research. This volume identifies the key scientific advances and the opportunities they bring. For example, science has learned that among older adults who do not suffer from Alzheimer s disease or other dementias, cognitive decline may depend less on loss of brain cells than on changes in the health of neurons and neural networks. Research on the processes that maintain neural health shows promise of revealing new ways to promote cognitive functioning in older people. Research is also showing how cognitive functioning depends on the conjunction of biology and culture. The ways older people adapt to changes in their nervous systems, and perhaps the changes themselves, are shaped by past life experiences, present living situations, changing motives, cultural expectations, and emerging technology, as well as by their physical health status and sensory-motor capabilities. Improved understanding of how physical and contextual factors interact can help explain why some cognitive functions are impaired in aging while others are spared and why cognitive capability is impaired in some older adults and spared in others. On the basis of these exciting findings, the report makes specific recommends that the U.S. government support three major new initiatives as the next steps for research.

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NOTES

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging" from the Beyond Discovery series

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