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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Healthy ageing"”.
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Facilitating Healthy Ageing: Neuroprotective Effects of Mindfulness Practice
… if said modulations were possible in a sample of healthy adults, meeting a current research need for longitudinal evidence in this field and providing important information regarding a potential mechanism for the salutary effects widely observed from the use of mindfulness based interventions. It …
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The use of focus cues in healthy ageing
… in relation to existing research on how healthy adult ageing modulates language processing.
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Moving for life: Understanding healthy ageing through daily movement
… across both indoor and outdoor environments in ageing populations. Furthermore, this work provides a foundation for longitudinal and experimental studies to clarify causal pathways between indoor and outdoor PA with PF outcomes.<p></p>
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Effects of healthy ageing on the precision of episodic memory
… is one of the hallmarks of human cognitive ageing, but our understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying this decline remains limited. In particular, it is unclear whether healthy ageing differentially affects distinct components of episodic memory retrieval; specifically, the …
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Memory Fidelity in Healthy Ageing and Risk for Cognitive Decline
Memory decline is characteristic of cognitive ageing and it has been suggested that one important factor underpinning the magnitude of age deficits is a reduction in the fidelity or quality of perceptual and mnemonic representations. This thesis examined cognitive and neural underpinnings of …
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Effects of attention on the precision of neural and mnemonic representations in healthy ageing
… its decline is a hallmark symptom of cognitive ageing. Amongst the various memory processes, it is well established that ageing particularly impacts recollection. Emerging studies using sensitive behavioural and imaging techniques indicate that ageing compromises the precision or fidelity of …
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Natural variation in the human plasma lipidome signature using mass spectrometry: relevance to healthy ageing
Population ageing and the associated increase in neurodegenerative diseases has made brain health an important research priority. Lipidomics, a subfield of omics, involves characterisation and quantification of total lipids in biological systems. Since brain lipids influence protein function and …
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Advanced Methods for Diffusion MRI Data Analysis and their Application to the Healthy Ageing Brain
… changes in the context of human development, ageing and neuropathology. In this thesis, the state-of-the-art of advanced dMRI techniques is explored and strategies to overcome or reduce its pitfalls are developed and validated. Firstly, it is shown that PCA denoising and Gibbs artefact …
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Salutogenesis 2.0: An examination of healthy ageing-in-place using a qualitative application of the Sense of Coherence.
… interviews were conducted with a sample of ‘healthy’ and active older people, aged 75 years and older, living independently in the East and South-East of Ireland. The results and analysis presented demonstrate the potential value of the qualitative application of the SOC, and additionally …
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Experiences of older beneficiaries of private medical aid schemes and retirement annuities for the development of healthy ageing models
… sectors of South Africa in order to develop healthy ageing models. It arises out of the increase in longevity and the potential increase of healthcare expenses in old age. The key concepts in this study are ageing frameworks and whealthcare: the relationship between the financial services …
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Awareness in ageing
Deficits in awareness are found in diseases of ageing, and with acute and traumatic brain injury. Despite investigations of awareness in ageing patient populations, little is known about any potential effects of normal ageing on awareness. The Hierarchies of Processing model (Stuss, Picton & …
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Relationship of brain functional, structural and vascular patterns to cognition in ageing and dementia
… understand the brain-cognition relationship in ageing and neurodegenerative diseases especially at an earlier stage, ideally before cognitive impairment. Measurements from neuroimaging can be useful to identify the complex processes of neurodegeneration which involve structural, cerebrovascular …
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Age-related differences in visuomotor integration as measured by object affordance effects - a combined behavioural and neurophysiological investigation
… there is relatively little evidence as to how healthy ageing affects these processes. A central role is played by the human capacity for reaching and grasping. Grasping an object requires complex visuomotor transformations, including processing of the object’s extrinsic features (it’s spatial …
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Electrophysiological Markers of Sensory Plasticity and Connectomics in Ageing and Mild Cognitive Impairment
… of these measures in distinguishing between healthy ageing, and potential latent neuropathology in those classified with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI); an 'at risk' group for Alzheimer's disease. The studies of this thesis employ two independently developed EEG paradigms designed …
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Falls and multisensory processing: exploring multisensory perception as a potential rehabilitation avenue for fall-prone older adults
Population ageing and global goals of striving for healthy ageing for our older citizens coincides with rapid developments in multisensory research. Research demonstrating older adults rely more on multisensory inputs compared to younger individuals, as well as mounting evidence linking …
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How does our ability to integrate information across space and time change as we age?
… binding ability that occur as a function of healthy ageing. Under the premise that these changes may occur due to reduced attentional resources (Sylvain-Roy et al., 2005), or changes in the ability to use contextual information as cue for recall (Meulenbroek et al., 2010), two hypotheses were …
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The impact of ageing and exercise training on cardiac structure and function in healthy females
… that Western societies face a rapidly increasing ageing population. With ageing comes a significant reduction in functional capacity, cardiovascular function, increased cardiovascular disease risk and thus increasing health care costs. Exercise interventions in the elderly may prove to be a …
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The relationship between autobiographical memory an executive functions in older adults
… executive functioning in normal and pathological ageing. The particular focus was on two aspects of autobiographical memory - recall specificity and fluency - that have been little investigated in cognitive ageing research to date. The literature reviewed included the domains of cognitive and …
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