Games like crossword puzzles and sudoku are often practiced to keep brains flexing, but in the face of cognitive decline, physical strength training could also help maintain or improve cognition.
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Category: Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Q&A with Teal Eich
Teal Eich, assistant professor of gerontology, is a cognitive neuroscientist who explores age-related changes in brain function.
Students fight Alzheimer’s in Washington, D.C.
On a trip to Washington, D.C., a group of USC Leonard Davis School students met actor Seth Rogen playing a more serious role: Alzheimer’s activist.
The Big Picture
The “Alzheimer’s Exposome” framework illustrates how environmental and genetic factors interact to more fully illustrate disease risk.
Boomers in the next decade: Working longer, living better
During the next decade, “advances in genetic research and big data analytics will enable more personalized — and effective — prescriptions” for disease prevention, says USC Leonard Davis Dean Pinchas Cohen.
Senior living: adapting to changing demographics and demands
Three USC Leonard Davis alumni discuss upcoming trends and challenges for their communities and the senior living industry.
USC celebrates International Day of Older Persons
To mark the United Nations-created holiday, the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology led campus-wide events raising awareness of the opportunities and challenges related to our aging society.
Tiny region of the brainstem has big effects on brain aging
Study of the locus coeruleus – the “blue spot” – has helped researchers know more about learning, memory and Alzheimer’s disease, says Professor Mara Mather.
Donna Benton Named to California’s Master Plan for Aging Stakeholder Advisory Committee
Benton, director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center, joins a group of civic leaders who will help to develop components of California's Master Plan for Aging.
G-20 Summit Puts Aging on the Agenda
USC Leonard Davis School Dean Pinchas Cohen addresses key audience in Tokyo.