Sentences with phrase «event aged the brain»

In African Americans, each event aged the brain an average of four years.

But in African - Americans, each event aged the brain an extra four years.

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As we age, our brains might start to get less sharp, making it harder to learn new things or remember key events.

Our aging brains similarly show wear in the realm of episodic memory, the part of brain function that handles recollections of recent events, like the last few chapters of the book you put down yesterday, or what you had for breakfast.

Moving through middle age and beyond, the brain develops a vast store of «generic memories» — knowledge of the shared patterns in events or things.

The findings provide new hope that by strengthening the link between these brain processes as people age, the impairments in distinguishing the order of events and perceived collisions could reduce.

In a new study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that such negative fateful life events — or FLEs — appear to also specifically accelerate aging in the brain.

«Negative fateful life events and the brains of middle - aged men: Findings suggest common major midlife adverse events, such as divorce or death of a family member, accelerates aging in the brain.»

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging aging risk.

P300 - based brain - computer interface (BCI) event - related potentials (ERPs): People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) vs. age - matched controls.

His research is based on the concept that normal brain aging and the pathogeneses of sporadic neurological diseases are not a consequence of a few single or «disease - specific «factors alone, rather they are driven by holistic events that include one's individual genetic and epigenetic condition, progression of aging, and lifestyle.

«We used a new algorithm to predict brain aging after horrible life events — like divorce or death — and negative life events accelerate brain aging by about one - third of a year for each event,» said study lead author Sean Hatton, a project scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

How is it that these events that most people experience at some point in their lives can speed up the aging of your brain?

THURSDAY, April 12, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Divorce, death in the family, money troubles and serious health problems don't just stress you out — these negative life events may actually accelerate the aging of your brain, new research suggests.

Stressful life events — like being fired from a job, getting divorced, or fighting in a war — can age the brain by up to four years, according to a study presented yesterday at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in London.

And they found that in white participants, each stressful event added about a year and a half to normal brain aging.