Bob Knight, professor of gerontology and psychology at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, is asked about his research and the effects of aging on the psychological and emotional issues that the growing elderly population in Hong Kong will face.
Professor Kelvin Davies of the Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, published- along with Andrew Pickering, Alison Koop, Cheryl Teoh, Gennady Ermak, and Tilman Grune- a paper in the BJ Cell Knowledge Environment which proved to be the best-cited paper in this category of articles contributing to the Biochemical Journal’s latest Impact Factor of 4.654. (Continue Reading…)
Speaking with Bloomberg’s Olivia Sterns, Dean Cohen discussed personalized aging – using breakthroughs in DNA test to individualize healthy aging strategies. [ Continue Reading… ]
AP News interviews the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology’s Elizabeth Zelinski on a new brain-training video game.
In a preliminary study, healthy volunteers ages 60 to 85 showed gains in their ability to multitask, to stay focused on a boring activity and to keep information in mind — the kind of memory you use to remember a phone number long enough to write it down. All those powers normally decline with age, Dr. Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues noted in a study released Wednesday by the journal Nature.