Aging

The Aging Brain Has Been Exaggerated

Older brains are more similar to younger brains than previously thought, according to a new study.  Certainly, brains change as we get older. People get dementia and that is linked to plaque build-up, but that is not neuronal activity, as some papers usin ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 11:45am

Mechanism To Delay Aging Identified

As medicine has improved, increasing our ability to treat disease, our longevity has improved as well. The deterioration of the body with age is a whole other matter, though. ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Mar 23 2015 - 9:22pm

Alzheimer's: Tau, Not Amyloid, Is The Primary Driver

An examination of over 3,600 postmortem brains has concluded that the progression of dysfunctional tau protein drives the cognitive decline and memory loss seen in Alzheimer's disease. That means amyloid, the other toxic protein that characterizes Alz ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2015 - 3:04pm

When Is It Dementia Rather Than Just Old Age?

As we age, our bodies biologically are going to perform less efficiently. There are no 60-year-old shortstops in major league baseball, we can injure more easily and our brains slow down as well. We often won't have the memory or cognitive processing ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2015 - 9:17am

Science From The Year In Space Mission Could Help Your Grandparents

NASA has sent an astronaut to the International Space Station to stay there for a year. ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 29 2015 - 10:22am

Rate Of Living Theory: Why Lemurs Won't Increase Our Lifespan

When Jonas the fat-tailed dwarf lemur died recently in captivity at the ripe age of 29 years, he was the oldest known of his species. But Jonas not only outlasted members of closely related lemur species held in captivity; he also lived much longer than s ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 5 2015 - 1:03pm

Sarcopenia: Creating Diagnostic Criteria For Age-Related Muscle Loss

Osteoporosis is a medical condition characterized by bones becoming brittle and fragile. Age-related loss in muscle mass and strength is considered analogous to osteoporosis but this “sarcopenia” is not recognized as a clinical condition even though it is ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2015 - 1:47pm

Preserve Memory Using Arts And Crafts (Computers Too)

In the developed world, we are aging rapidly. People age 85 and older make up the fastest growing age group in the United States and in other countries that trend will also increase. Aging and aging well are not always the same thing, though, and issues l ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 4:06pm

People Are Aging More Slowly Than We Think

Faster increases in life expectancy do not necessarily produce faster population aging, a counterintuitive finding that came as a result of applying new measures of aging developed at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in ord ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2015 - 7:30am

Half Of U.S. Elderly Now Taking Aspirin

A national survey suggests that slightly more than half of the older adults in the United States are now taking a daily dose of aspirin, even though its use is not recommended by the Food and Drug Administration for most people who have not yet had a hear ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2015 - 8:00am