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Maintained Frontal Activity Underlies High Memory Function Over 8 Years in Aging
Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för strålningsvetenskaper, Diagnostisk radiologi. Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Umeå centrum för funktionell hjärnavbildning (UFBI). Umeå universitet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB), Fysiologi.
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2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Cerebral Cortex, ISSN 1047-3211, E-ISSN 1460-2199, Vol. 29, nr 7, s. 3111-3123Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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Aging is characterized by substantial average decline in memory performance. Yet contradictory explanations have been given for how the brains of high-performing older adults work: either by engagement of compensatory processes such as recruitment of additional networks or by maintaining young adults' patterns of activity. Distinguishing these components requires large experimental samples and longitudinal follow-up. Here, we investigate which features are key to high memory in aging, directly testing these hypotheses by studying a large sample of adult participants (n > 300) with fMRI during an episodic memory experiment where item-context relationships were implicitly encoded. The analyses revealed that low levels of activity in frontal networks-known to be involved in memory encoding-were associated with low memory performance in the older adults only. Importantly, older participants with low memory performance and low frontal activity exhibited a strong longitudinal memory decline in an independent verbal episodic memory task spanning 8 years back (n = 52). These participants were also characterized by lower hippocampal volumes and steeper rates of cortical atrophy. Altogether, maintenance of frontal brain function during encoding seems to be a primary characteristic of preservation of memory function in aging, likely reflecting intact ability to integrate information.

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC , 2019. Vol. 29, nr 7, s. 3111-3123
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aging, brain maintenance, encoding, episodic memory, fMRI
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-162009DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy177ISI: 000477708300026PubMedID: 30137326Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85063658994OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-162009DiVA, id: diva2:1342181
Tillgänglig från: 2019-08-13 Skapad: 2019-08-13 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-03-24Bibliografiskt granskad

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