During National Suicide Prevention Week, Professor Elizabeth Zelinski discusses the need for better mental health supports for older adults.
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NBC Los Angeles featured research from Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School on how environmental factors interact with genetic factors to increase or reduce risk for Alzheimer’s disease. “We propose a new approach to comprehensively assess the multiple brain-body interactions that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease,” he said. Additional coverage was found on Telemundo Los Angeles, MyNewsLA and KNX 1070 AM.
USC and Duke researchers say the framework illustrates how environmental and genetic factors interact.
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Vice quoted Elizabeth Zelinski of the USC Leonard Davis School on the correlation between age and mental skills, and how cognition should be assessed along with other routine health matters during presidential physicals.
Study of the locus coeruleus – the “blue spot” – has helped researchers know more about learning, memory and Alzheimer’s disease, says Professor Mara Mather.
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Fast Company cited a study from the USC Emotion and Cognition Lab on how men tend to take more risks under stress, while female risk-taking under pressure decreases.
USC Leonard Davis faculty members host student researchers from Howard University, UC Davis, and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
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Adam Piore with MIT Technology Review detailed his experience with the ProLon fast-mimicking diet and featured comments from its inventor, Professor Valter Longo.
KJZZ-FM featured research from lead author Briana Kennedy of the USC Leonard Davis School and colleagues on how older adults view their world through a positive filter, compared to younger adults. “We found older adults were biased toward positive information, but tended to filter out the negative and on the other hand, the younger adults were distracted by positive and negative information,” she said.
As USC Biology of Aging PhD student Juan Bravo watched his own parents age, he realized he wanted to do something that would help other older adults cope with age-related illnesses.
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