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Ilana Bennett
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Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Riverside studying brain aging and learning and memory
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BOLD in LC related to subsequent memory performance in adults across the lifespan, possibly due to attentional boosting of memory

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Blood oxygenation level-dependent responses in neuromodulatory nuclei and their associations with attention and memory across age groups
Using multi-echo blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) neuroimaging, we examined lifespan differences in three subcortical nuclei important to the …
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November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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T-tau, a marker or gray matter degeneration, is more strongly correlated with synaptic biomarkers (neurogranin and BACE1) than NfL

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Comparison of CSF neurofilament light chain and total tau as neurodegeneration markers: Associations with synaptic markers and cognitive outcomes
Clinically, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cognitive decline due to neuronal and synaptic degeneration. Neurofilament light …
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November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark:

Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults

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November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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📚 NEW ISSUE 📚

Articles cover epigenetic and brain aging, plasma and MRI predictors of cognition in aging, aging of hippocampal microstructure, and more.

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Neurobiology of Aging | Vol 155, Pages 1-124 (November 2025) | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
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November 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Interactive video games that make exercise more engaging can change brain structure and function in older adults.

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Neurobiological effects of exergame interventions in older adults with or without a neurocognitive disorder: A systematic review
Exergames (EG) are interactive video games that require physical activity and use gamification to make exercise more engaging. EG interventions demons…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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📣 One more month to submit to this Special Issue on Brain Resilience & Diversity in Aging and Dementia!

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November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Hearing loss is more strongly associated with tau burden than β-amyloid (Aβ) burden.

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Evaluating the link between hearing loss and Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Hearing loss has been linked with cognitive decline and increased dementia risk. The neurobiological mechanisms underlying this relationship are not c…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1!
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November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Lifestyle risk factors can discriminate latent classes of memory trajectories but differ across racial-ethnic groups.

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Identifying lifestyle risk factors that discriminate memory trajectories: Differential findings across racial and ethnic groups in older adults
Differences in lifestyle factors contribute towards inequalities in dementia incidence and memory trajectories across racial and ethnic groups. We ide…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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A 6-month balance training intervention improves postural control and performance-related prefrontal brain activation in older adults.

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Balance training improves postural control and performance-related prefrontal brain activation in healthy older adults: Results of a six-month randomized controlled training intervention
Age-related deterioration in postural control is an important factor decreasing quality of life. Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that the a…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).
jmerenstein.bsky.social Jenna Merenstein @jmerenstein.bsky.social · Aug 27
Yay, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥳 I am excited to be starting my new lab this Fall! I’ll be reviewing applications this cycle for 1-2 graduate students to start in Fall 2026. More information about applications can be found here: psych.utah.edu/graduate/
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Hippocampal subfield volumes follow nonlinear trajectories across the lifespan.

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Two-year changes in hippocampal subfield volumes are age-dependent across the lifespan
The hippocampus (Hc), which is crucial for memory across the lifespan, is comprised of distinct subfields: dentate gyrus (DG), Cornu Ammonis (CA) sect…
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October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Cortico-striatal gray matter atrophy and white matter microstructural degradation across the rhesus macaque adult lifespan.

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Age-related differences in cerebral morphology and microstructure in rhesus macaques
The rhesus macaque presents a promising model for translational research into human brain aging due to this species’ long lifespan and close phylogeni…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with higher Aβ burden, lower rFDG, and worse cognition in Alzheimer's Disease.

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How is self-reported sleep-disordered breathing linked with biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease?
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is prevalent in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, we assessed how self-reported SDB is linked with AD biomarkers, inclu…
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October 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Older adults fail to gate irrelevant information, indicating a top-down inhibitory control deficit that controbutes to their worse memory.

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Effects of age on the strategic control of recollected content as reflected by modulation of neural correlates of scene retrieval
A previous study employing fMRI measures of retrieval-related neural selectivity reported that young, but not older, adults employ ‘retrieval gating’ …
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September 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

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September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Articles cover effects of age on brain structure, balance training, exergame interventions, links between hearing loss and AD, and more.

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Neurobiology of Aging | Vol 154, Pages 1-104 (October 2025) | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
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September 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Atypical presentation of AD with greater cortical involvement is seen in individuals with younger chronological age or younger biological age relative to their chronological age.

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Biological age acceleration in Alzheimer’s disease modulates relative cortical to medial temporal lobe neurodegeneration
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is highly associated with aging, typically presenting with amnestic, multi-domain cognitive impairment and greater medial tem…
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September 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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September 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Articles cover processing speed in background noise, biological age acceleration in Alzheimer's Disease, effects of strength training in aging, and more.

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Neurobiology of Aging | Vol 153, Pages 1-62 (September 2025) | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
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September 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Clusters of positive modifiable factors (physical/cognitive activity, education, sleep, depression, personality) attenuate effects of amyloid on cognition.

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September 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Yay, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥳 I am excited to be starting my new lab this Fall! I’ll be reviewing applications this cycle for 1-2 graduate students to start in Fall 2026. More information about applications can be found here: psych.utah.edu/graduate/
August 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 15: Special Issue in JGPS on Decision Neuroscience and Aging

Get those papers in now!

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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Decision Neuroscience and Aging Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B Guest Co-Editors: Karolina Lempert, PhD
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August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Interactions between CSF misfolded proteins (Aβ, p-tau), inflammatory markers (IL-8), and brain regional CBF and atrophy are more pronounced in individuals with higher cardiovascular risk factors

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Higher cardiovascular disease risk in older adults may explain why shorter sleep duration relates to worse cognition.

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