NBC News, U.S. News & World Report, and Yahoo News featured Valter Longo on how caloric restriction could affect health and aging. Longo said long-term restriction should be approached with caution: “It may cause powerful anti-aging effects, but also probably some degree of frailty or other issues that may not…
The university selectively awards the Distinguished Professor title to those whose accomplishments have brought special renown to USC.
Los Angeles Times and Yahoo News featured Donna Benton on retirement and homelessness. “Everywhere you turn, gas bills are going up and people on fixed incomes could end up having to choose between the gas bill and housing,” she said.
Daily Beast featured Jennifer Ailshire on USC Leonard Davis School research focused on “Super Agers.” “We are seeing with this group of [SuperAgers] that they’re quite extraordinary. They really diverge from adults who don’t make it to those old ages,” Ailshire said. “They just look healthier all throughout their lives.”
Medical News Today spoke with Mara Mather about the emotional regulation of older individuals. “A concern I have is that readers may get the impression that older adults, in general, are worse than younger adults at managing their emotion. … To the contrary, previous research indicates that emotional well-being typically…
Letters successfully encouraged clinicians to check patients’ prescribing records, says study co-author Mireille Jacobson.
National Geographic interviewed Valter Longo about his research on fasting, fasting-mimicking diets, and how diet affects lifespan and healthspan. “When we talk to centenarians we often hear, ‘You know, we went through moments, through times, where there was just no food at all,’” he says.
Medical News Today featured a study led by Caleb Finch and Max Thorwald on amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer’s versus normal aging. “We were surprised to find extensive overlap between cognitively normal and Alzheimer’s patients for the soluble or non-aggregated form of amyloid proteins,” Thorwald said. “We also found that the…
AI-powered analysis developed at USC accurately reflects risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease based on brain age.
STAT quoted Caleb Finch in a story on the apparent links between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases. “Population-based studies have come into complete agreement on three continents — North America, Western Europe, and Asia — that air pollution above a certain level predicts a higher risk of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s,…
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