Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging

Contributors Introduction I. Methods and Issues 1. MRI measures of aging: methodological issues Hanzhang Lu & Peiying Liu 2. Molecular imaging of aging and neurodegenerative disease Anna Rieckmann, Randy L. Buckner & Trey Hedden 3. Age differences in structural connectivity: DTI and WMHs David J. Madden & Emily L. Parks 4. Age differences in functional connectivity at rest and during cognitive tasks Cheryl L. Grady 5. Multi-modal imaging of the aging brain Anders M. Fjell & Kristine B. Walhovd 6. Structural and functional imaging of aging: longitudinal studies Lars Nyberg, Sara Pudas, & Anders Lundquist 7. Interpreting age-related differences in memory-related neural activity Michael D. Rugg II. Cognitive Processes 8. Selective attention and inhibitory control in the aging brain Theodore P. Zanto & Adam Gazzaley 9. Working memory and executive functions in the aging brain Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz & Cindy Lustig 10. Neural correlates of age-related slowing Timothy A. Salthouse 11. The aging hippocampus: linking animal and human research Shauna M. Stark & Craig E. L. Stark 12. Episodic memory encoding and retrieval in the aging brain Wei-Chun Wang & Roberto Cabeza 13. Emotion and emotional memory Elizabeth A. Kensinger & Jaclyn H. Ford III. Health and disease 14. The middle-aged brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective Denise C. Park & Sara B. Festini 15. The modifying role of hypertension in cognitive and brain aging Karen M. Rodrigue & Gerard N. Bischof 16. Genetics and cognitive neuroscience of aging Goren Papenberg, Ulman Lindenberger & Lars Backman 17. Effects of exercise on cognition, brain structure, and brain function in older adults Kirk I. Erickson & Lauren E. Oberlin 18. The link of intellectual engagement to cognitive and brain aging. Martin Lövdén, Lars Backman & Ulman Lindenberger 19. Disambiguating preclinical Alzheimer's disease from cognitive aging Reisa Sperling 20. Late-Life Depression: Translating Neurobiological Hypotheses into novel treatments. George S. Alexopoulos & Robert E. Kelly Index