Most
measures
of
naturalistic
human
memory
instruct
participants
to
recall
personally-experienced
episodes
in
narrative
format.
These
narratives
contain
non-episodic
details,
such
as
general
knowledge
the
world,
or
personal
about
one’s
life
circumstances
that
are
elevated
with
aging.
As
this
content
is
incidental
instructions,
it
difficult
interpret.
We
modified
widely
used
Autobiographical
Interview
(AI)
create
a
Semantic
(SAI)
explicitly
targets
semantic
(P-SAI)
and
memories
(G-SAI).
tested
SAI
young
older
adults,
alongside
original
AI.
Older
adults
produced
higher
proportion
off-task
utterances
(i.e.,
details
not
probed
by
instructions)
across
all
sections
interview.
Specifically,
more
autobiographical
facts
AI,
episodic
P-SAI,
self-knowledge
G-SAI
than
did
adults.
However,
also
consistently
on
P-SAI.
findings
suggest
increased
production
ageing
reflects
bias
towards
age
differences
goes
beyond
remembering,
reflected
an
age-associated
abundance
interview,
accommodated
accounts
aging
emphasizing
reduced
cognitive
control
compensation
for
impairment.
Physiological Reviews,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
104(3), С. 1205 - 1263
Опубликована: Март 14, 2024
Stress
resilience
is
the
phenomenon
that
some
people
maintain
their
mental
health
despite
exposure
to
adversity
or
show
only
temporary
impairments
followed
by
quick
recovery.
Resilience
research
attempts
unravel
factors
and
mechanisms
make
possible
harness
its
insights
for
development
of
preventative
interventions
in
individuals
at
risk
acquiring
stress-related
dysfunctions.
Biological
has
been
lagging
behind
psychological
social
sciences
but
seen
a
massive
surge
recent
years.
At
same
time,
progress
this
field
hampered
methodological
challenges
related
finding
suitable
operationalizations
study
designs,
replicating
findings,
modeling
animals.
We
embed
review
behavioral,
neuroimaging,
neurobiological,
systems
biological
findings
adults
critical
methods
discussion.
find
preliminary
evidence
hippocampus-based
pattern
separation
prefrontal-based
cognitive
control
functions
protect
against
pathological
fears
aftermath
singular,
event-type
stressors
[as
found
fear-related
disorders,
including
simpler
forms
posttraumatic
stress
disorder
(PTSD)]
facilitating
perception
safety.
Reward
system-based
pursuit
savoring
positive
reinforcers
appear
more
generalized
dysfunctions
anxious-depressive
spectrum
resulting
from
severe
longer-lasting
(as
depression,
comorbid
anxiety,
PTSD).
Links
between
preserved
functioning
these
neural
under
neuroplasticity,
immunoregulation,
gut
microbiome
composition,
integrity
barrier
blood-brain
are
beginning
emerge.
On
basis,
avenues
pointed
out.
The Journals of Gerontology Series B,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
78(10), С. 1617 - 1624
Опубликована: Май 24, 2023
A
meta-analytic
review
was
conducted
to
assess
the
effects
of
healthy
aging,
amnestic
mild
cognitive
impairment
(MCI),
and
Alzheimer's
disease
(AD)
on
naturalistic
autobiographical
memory
using
Autobiographical
Interview,
a
widely
used,
standardized
assessment
that
derives
measures
internal
(episodic)
external
(nonepisodic)
details
from
freely
recalled
narratives.
eNeuro,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
11(3), С. ENEURO.0418 - 23.2023
Опубликована: Март 1, 2024
Aging
comes
with
declines
in
episodic
memory.
Memory
decline
is
accompanied
by
structural
and
functional
alterations
within
key
brain
regions,
including
the
hippocampus
lateral
prefrontal
cortex,
as
well
their
affiliated
default
frontoparietal
control
networks.
Most
studies
have
examined
how
or
differences
relate
to
memory
independently.
Here
we
implemented
a
multimodal,
multivariate
approach
investigate
interactions
between
individual
integrity
connectivity
performance
healthy
aging.
In
sample
of
younger
(
N
=
111;
mean
age,
22.11
years)
older
78;
67.29
adults,
analyzed
MRI
multiecho
resting-state
fMRI
data.
Participants
completed
measures
list
recall
(free
words
from
list),
associative
(cued
paired
words),
source
trial
type,
sensory
modality
which
word
was
presented).
The
findings
revealed
that
greater
posterior
middle
frontal
gyrus
were
linked
pattern
increased
within-network
connectivity,
together
related
better
adulthood.
Critically,
adults
displayed
context
decreased
hippocampal
volumes
when
reorganization.
This
reorganization
characterized
pruning
connections
limbic
Our
work
provides
insight
into
neural
mechanisms
underlie
age-related
compensation,
revealing
architecture
associated
aging
tied
cortex.
NeuroImage,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
308, С. 121068 - 121068
Опубликована: Янв. 29, 2025
Cued
recollection
involves
the
retrieval
of
different
features
encoded
event.
Previous
research
has
shown
that
complex
events
jointly
recruits
Default
Mode
and
Frontoparietal
Control
networks,
but
degree
to
which
activity
within
these
networks
varies
as
a
function
particular
memory
dimension
(e.g.,
"when-what-where"
information)
remains
largely
unknown.
In
present
functional
Magnetic
Resonance
Imaging
(fMRI)
study,
human
participants
retrieved
specific
information
about
previously
TV
show
assess
veracity
detailed
sentences
along
four
dimensions
(i.e.,
object
character
details,
spatial
layouts,
temporal
sequences,
verbal
dialogues).
A
common
for
all
was
observed
in
left-lateralized
network
regions
overlaps
with
Network
(FPCN),
including
lateral
prefrontal,
superior
parietal,
cortex.
Instead,
larger
specialization
(DMN),
particularly
its
posterior
nodes.
Dimension-related
specificity
both
associated
performance
across
subjects.
Finally,
clear
leftward
asymmetry
DMN
except
one,
whereas
FPCN
showed
bilateral
activation
dimensions.
The
results
generally
support
view
is
processed
by
mosaic
large
portions
associative
cortex
involved
higher-order
mnemonic
functions.
Scientific Reports,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
15(1)
Опубликована: Март 11, 2025
Abstract
In
addition
to
episodic
memory
loss
there
is
an
increase
in
false
remembering
ageing
especially
when
the
discrimination
between
studied
and
new
items
difficult
a
recognition
task.
The
aim
of
this
study
was
identify
underlying
psychological
mechanisms
behavior,
specifically,
possible
role
recollection.
We
used
Mnemonic
Similarity
Task,
widely
task
neuroscience
research
developed
assess
behavioral
manifestation
hippocampal
computations,
pattern
separation
completion.
First,
older
young
adults
(
n
=
39
44,
respectively)
were
presented
with
images
everyday
objects.
Then,
on
surprise
test,
they
saw
old
(studied)
(non-studied)
as
well
visually
similar
lures
seen
phase.
Instead
using
original
Old/New
test
format,
we
asked
participants
make
confidence
judgments.
Our
response
frequency
ROC
(receiver
operating
characteristics)
analyses
revealed
overconfidence
memories
for
group
suggesting
Such
not
observed
completely
stimuli.
results
imply
that
tend
acknowledge
some
problems
consequence
very
high
memories.
Human Brain Mapping,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
46(4)
Опубликована: Март 1, 2025
Nostalgia
is
a
mixed
emotion
that
often
evoked
by
music.
Nostalgic
music
may
induce
temporary
improvements
in
autobiographical
memory
individuals
with
cognitive
decline.
However,
the
neural
mechanism
underlying
music-evoked
nostalgia
and
its
associated
unclear.
With
ultimate
goal
of
understanding
how
nostalgia-evoking
help
retrieve
memories
impairment,
we
first
sought
to
understand
underpinnings
these
processes
healthy
younger
older
adults.
Methodological
constraints,
including
lack
personally
tailored
experimentally
controlled
stimuli,
have
impeded
our
this
mechanism.
Here,
utilized
an
innovative
machine-learning-based
method
construct
three
categories
songs,
all
matched
for
musical
features:
(1)
personalized
nostalgic,
(2)
familiar
non-nostalgic,
(3)
unfamiliar
non-nostalgic.
In
57
participants
(29
aged
18-35;
28
60
older),
investigated
functional
correlates
using
fMRI.
Four
main
findings
emerged:
Listening
nostalgic
music,
more
than
non-nostalgic
or
was
bilateral
activity
default
mode
network,
salience
reward
medial
temporal
lobe,
supplementary
motor
regions,
Psychophysiological
interaction
(PPI)
models
indicated
listening
involved
increased
connectivity
self-referential
(posteromedial
cortex)
affect-related
regions
(insula),
Older
adults
had
stronger
BOLD
signals
nostalgia-related
during
listening,
(4)
While
response
trait-level
factors
proneness
ability,
related
affective
responses
Overall,
serve
as
foundation
basis
potential
use
future
clinical
interventions.
Frontiers in Global Women s Health,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
5
Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2025
Recent
ageing
research
has
projected
the
lifespan
and
proportion
of
postmenopausal
women
living
in
low-
middle-income
countries
to
substantially
increase
over
years,
especially
on
African
continent.
An
important
subgroup
within
population
is
those
with
female
genital
circumcision/mutilation/cutting
(FGC).
Practised
across
31
nations,
FGC
holds
cultural
significance
as
it
deemed
essential
marriage
successful
womanhood.
Perhaps
because
this,
most
studies
have
primarily
focused
women's
reproductive
functioning
their
mood
experiences.
These
also
usually
exclude
from
cohorts.
Consequently,
cognition
age-related
cognitive
decline
preservation
remain
understudied.
Therefore,
we
investigated
what
known
about
local
immigrant
FGC.
To
do
carried
out
a
narrative
review
searching
PubMed,
PsycInfo,
Google
Scholar
databases.
Boolean
combinations
keywords
related
FGC,
cognition,
ageing,
were
used,
focus
ageing-related
terms.
Only
published
English,
that
recruited
aged
50
years
older,
and/or
mood-related
experiences
included.
Ten
found;
these
included
quantitative,
qualitative,
case
reports.
The
age
range
cohorts
was
13-90
years;
who
likely
formed
minority
(4.5%-25%).
There
no
assessing
memory
or
beyond
looking
at
FGC-related
memories,
which
vivid,
if
had
type
III
(Pharaonic)
older
time
Although
reported
experiencing
negative
emotions
concerning
quantitative
reports
showed
only
experienced
post-traumatic
stress
disorder,
anxiety,
depression.
Thus,
there
remains
an
urgent
need
bring
this
understudied
group
into
dementia
research.
Future
should
adopt
mixed-methods
culturally
sensitive
methodologies
investigate
lived
experience
well
changes.
A
holistic
understanding
Horn
Africa's
needs
will
support
improvement
quality
care
delivered
cohort
both
contexts.