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Advancements in Cognitive Aging Research: Understanding Neural Changes and Improving Quality of Life

This research program, spearheaded by Denise C. Park at the University of Texas at Dallas, explores the significant decline in behavioral function and neural integrity associated with aging. Despite this decline, the brain's potential for reorganization is emphasized, highlighting the possibility of enhancing cognitive behavior through improved information processing. The program includes studies on cognitive neuroscience and neural signatures of cognitive health across the lifespan, alongside interventions aimed at enhancing medical adherence and cognitive functioning, ultimately to improve the quality of life in older adults.

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Advancements in Cognitive Aging Research: Understanding Neural Changes and Improving Quality of Life

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  1. Promising Directions in Cognitive Aging Denise C Park University of Texas at Dallas

  2. Major Theoretical Constructs that Organize My Research Program

  3. With age there is significant decline in both behavioral function and neural integrity.

  4. The brain can reorganize, even in late adulthood.

  5. Cognitive behavior can also be supported by improving the information to be processed.

  6. All of these findings can be translated into research that can improve quality of life and defer cognitive aging either fundamentally or functionally.

  7. Research Program • The “hippo” study—basic cognitive neuroscience • Lifespan study of 350 adults with extensive structural, functional imaging and behavioral battery. • Focus is on understanding the neural signature of cognitive health at every decade and what the different neural signatures predict in the future.

  8. Intervention work: Improving Quality of Life • Medical adherence and medical information processing • Viva! Project, seeking to intervene to improve cognitive function and adaptive behaviors.

  9. Used to monitoro blood glucose. Records date, time and glucose level. Sold over the counter. Elite XL: A Microcurrent meter

  10. Effects of Age and Instructions on Adherence Liu & Park, 2004, Psy & Aging.

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