 Cognitive Aging
"Cognitive Aging" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Phenomenon that occurs when learning and memory abilities decrease naturally due to age.
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D000066492
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.345.124.260
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cognitive Aging" by people in Profiles.
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Hicken MT, DeAngelis R, Rigby D, Burnside L, Adar S, Burgard S, Davis BA, Donnelly R, Finlay JM, Hajat A, Lee J, Perry BL, Thorpe LE, Umberson D. The social environment and cognitive aging over the life course: laying out critical concepts and research gaps. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 Jul; 22(7):e71648.
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Meyer OL, Farias ST, Gavett BE, Park VT, Hinton L, Kanaya AM, Whitmer RA, Tiet QQ, Vuong Q, Mai LG, Weakley A, Vu UMT, Dominguez BA, Harvey D. Associations of war-related exposures and early life adversity with late-life cognition. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 Mar; 22(3):e71295.
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Gavett BE, Tomaszewski Farias S, Tiet QQ, Park VT, Harvey D, Vuong Q, Hinton L, Kanaya AM, Whitmer RA, Mai L, Meyer OL. Harmonized cognitive performance in an older adult cohort of Vietnamese American immigrants: The VIP study. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 05; 21(5):e70097.
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Mendez Colmenares A, Thomas ML, Anderson C, Arciniegas DB, Calhoun V, Choi IY, Kramer AF, Li K, Lee J, Lee P, Burzynska AZ. Testing the structural disconnection hypothesis: Myelin content correlates with memory in healthy aging. Neurobiol Aging. 2024 09; 141:21-33.
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Luna MG, Pahlen S, Corley RP, Wadsworth SJ, Reynolds CA. Frailty and Processing Speed Performance at the Cusp of Midlife in CATSLife. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2023 11 14; 78(11):1834-1842.
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Abraham AG, Hong C, Deal JA, Bettcher BM, Pelak VS, Gross A, Jiang K, Swenor B, Wittich W. Are cognitive researchers ignoring their senses? The problem of sensory deficit in cognitive aging research. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 05; 71(5):1369-1377.
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Finlay J, Esposito M, Langa KM, Judd S, Clarke P. Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging. Soc Sci Med. 2022 09; 309:115220.
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Kobayashi LC, Gross AL, Gibbons LE, Tommet D, Sanders RE, Choi SE, Mukherjee S, Glymour M, Manly JJ, Berkman LF, Crane PK, Mungas DM, Jones RN. You Say Tomato, I Say Radish: Can Brief Cognitive Assessments in the U.S. Health Retirement Study Be Harmonized With Its International Partner Studies? J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2021 10 30; 76(9):1767-1776.
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Smith SM, Zequeira S, Ravi M, Johnson SA, Hampton AM, Ross AM, Pyon W, Maurer AP, Bizon JL, Burke SN. Age-related impairments on the touchscreen paired associates learning (PAL) task in male rats. Neurobiol Aging. 2022 01; 109:176-191.
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Tibon R, Tsvetanov KA, Price D, Nesbitt D, Can C, Henson R. Transient neural network dynamics in cognitive ageing. Neurobiol Aging. 2021 09; 105:217-228.
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