Aging…

Older adults over 85 who regularly do both aerobic and strength-training exercises scored higher on cognitive tests than those who are sedentary or only do cardio exercise.

Alyssa Falise, Christian McLaren and Shangchen Song were awarded 2023 Leighton E. Cluff Awards for Aging Research.

The project will employ a coaching strategy to help health care providers  in hospitals limit both patient falls and the use of bed alarms.

Research could provide a path for more targeted future interventions, such as non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation.

Increasing moderate-intensity exercise in older adults led to little reduction in the overall time they spent in sedentary activity.

Dr. Woods is Assistant Director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory (CAM) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. He is also the Director of the Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation Research Core in the CAM. Dr. Woods’ research focuses on discovery and application of…

In a study of older adults who completed cognitive tasks while cycling on a stationary bike, Dr. Lori Altmann and fellow researchers found that participants’ cycling speed improved with no cost to their cognitive performance.