Study finds seniors over 85 who exercise scored higher on cognitive tests
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.
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Three PHHP graduate students selected for aging research award
Alyssa Falise, Christian McLaren and Shangchen Song were awarded 2023 Leighton E. Cluff Awards for Aging Research.
UF receives NIH grant to improve strategies for inpatient fall prevention
The project will employ a coaching strategy to help health care providers  in hospitals limit both patient falls and the use of bed alarms.
Study identifies a potential biomarker for decreased brain processing speed in aging
Research could provide a path for more targeted future interventions, such as non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation.
Does daily exercise cut back on older adults’ sedentary life? Study: not so much
Increasing moderate-intensity exercise in older adults led to little reduction in the overall time they spent in sedentary activity.
Adam Woods
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…
UF study shows benefits of multitasking on exercise
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.
Michael Marsiske
Dr. Marsiske’s research investigates the impact of cognitive aging on adults’ everyday functioning, with a particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of interventions (cognitive training, mental and physical exercise) to maintain and improve late life cognition. Dr. Marsiske is also strongly connected with the University of Florida’s Institute on…
Christina McCrae
Dr. McCrae’s program of sleep research focuses on the mechanisms underlying normal and pathological sleep, the link between sleep and cognition, and the efficacy and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral interventions to treat insomnia in older individuals, dementia caregivers, and medical populations (pain, cardiac disease, cancer, and end stage renal disease). Her…
William Perlstein
Dr. Perlstein’s research interests include Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental Psychopathology, Emotion Neuroscience, Anxiety Disorders, Traumatic Brain Injury, Psychophysiology, Functional Neuroimaging. Full CV…