TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling cognitive trajectories within longitudinal studies
T2 - A focus on older adults
AU - Steinerman, Joshua R.
AU - Hall, Charles B.
AU - Sliwinski, Martin J.
AU - Lipton, Richard B.
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - The natural history of life span cognitive performance and its late-life determinants have been studied from an array of perspectives. Significant insights come from psychological disciplines, including cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychology, as well as from medical specialties, such as geriatrics, neurology, psychiatry, neuroradiology, and neuropathology, that contribute to the growing interdisciplinary scientific field: cognitive neuroscience of aging. This survey of longitudinal studies of aging suggests that disease-oriented investigations commonly do not adequately consider normative cognitive changes, whereas developmental studies do not sufficiently measure and model nonnormative cognitive aging. This article argues for an integrative perspective that considers both of these influences on cognitive trajectories and presents a series of methodological concerns that have not been addressed comprehensively. Interdisciplinary methods from longitudinal observational studies should be leveraged to enable translational interventions to promote brain longevity.
AB - The natural history of life span cognitive performance and its late-life determinants have been studied from an array of perspectives. Significant insights come from psychological disciplines, including cognitive, developmental, and neuropsychology, as well as from medical specialties, such as geriatrics, neurology, psychiatry, neuroradiology, and neuropathology, that contribute to the growing interdisciplinary scientific field: cognitive neuroscience of aging. This survey of longitudinal studies of aging suggests that disease-oriented investigations commonly do not adequately consider normative cognitive changes, whereas developmental studies do not sufficiently measure and model nonnormative cognitive aging. This article argues for an integrative perspective that considers both of these influences on cognitive trajectories and presents a series of methodological concerns that have not been addressed comprehensively. Interdisciplinary methods from longitudinal observational studies should be leveraged to enable translational interventions to promote brain longevity.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02982.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02982.x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21029060
AN - SCOPUS:77957371575
SN - 0002-8614
VL - 58
SP - S313-S318
JO - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
JF - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
IS - SUPPL. 2
ER -