UNDERSTANDING THE INTERPLAY OF BRAIN HEALTH, COGNITION, AND AUTONOMIC FUNCTION
Evan Simms, Sarah Wilson, Roger Newman-Norlund, Julius Fridriksson, Sarah Newman-Norlund · 2023
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Evan Simms and co-authors report how brain health, thinking skills, and the autonomic nervous system move together, in a 2023 conference abstract. Clinical research on age-related disease finds the three tangled: automatic body regulation falters with cognition and brain structure. The study cross-analyzed one hundred and fifty-eight healthy and unhealthy participants using an autonomic symptom questionnaire, a cognitive screen, and a brain-age estimate.
Age, white matter lesion load, and two brain-age measures correlated significantly with cognitive scores. Both the cognitive screen and every autonomic domain predicted white matter damage volume. The authors read the tight three-way link practically: people who score high on both the cognitive and autonomic assessments should be sent for brain imaging to look for damage. They call for follow-up work identifying which risk factors for cognitive decline double as symptoms of autonomic trouble.
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| CREATOR | Evan Simms, Sarah Wilson, Roger Newman-Norlund, Julius Fridriksson, Sarah Newman-Norlund |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |