Cam-CAN
Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience: studying healthy ageing of brain and cognition. www.cam-can.org
- Reposted by Cam-CANAn international research effort combining brain imaging and memory testing from thousands of adults is offering a clearer picture of how age-related brain changes affect memory. @andersfjell.bsky.social Learn More in Nature Communications @natureportfolio.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Another nice use of multiple cohorts, including Cam-CAN
- Researchers from MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge and University of Cambridge showed that the brain stays in the adolescent phase until our early thirties. Find out more in the BBC article 👉 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl6k…
- Reposted by Cam-CANWhy do some people lose memory faster with age? A mega-analysis of 13 longitudinal datasets (3,700+ adults, 10,000+ MRIs) shows that memory decline tracks brain atrophy, especially in the hippocampus, and that these links strengthen with age, but not APOE status: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Cam-CANWe are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
- Another interesting paper from LifeBrain consortium suggesting that sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in women www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- "CamCAN 15 years on" - a new preprint reviewing all findings about the cognitive neuroscience of ageing from sharing CamCAN data, led by @rhens.bsky.social : osf.io/preprints/ps...
- New CamCAN study led by @praykov.bsky.social used 11 different white matter (WM) measures to show that WM health is multidimensional: 4 latent MRI-derived factors explained 89% of WM variance, were predicted by vascular health, and predicted cognition: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- New CamCAN paper led by @noham-wolpe.bsky.social shows that older adults’ tendency to see facial expressions as more positive may not be the adaptive “rose-coloured glasses” we thought, but could signal early cognitive decline and neurodegeneration: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40854689/
- Reposted by Cam-CANInternational study shows that higher levels of education do not reduce rates of cognitive and brain decline in later years, contrary to views that education protects against such decline: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @rhens.bsky.social
- More fantastic work on the importance of pulse pressure from @kamentsve.bsky.social ...
- Recent research from CamCAN shows that, when pulse pressure, the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, gets too high, it can damage the brain’s “wiring” (white matter), making it harder to think fast and solve puzzles: doi.org/10.1161/HYPE... @camcan-2010.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cam-CANUpdated version of this paper now published in Cerebral Cortex 🥳 doi.org/10.1093/cerc... @sarahhenderson.bsky.social is on a roll 🙌🏻 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #memory #aging
- New preprint by @sarahehenderson.bsky.social with Linda Geerligs using EEG to look at age differences in neural state changes during movie watching and their relationship to memory for the movie #psychscisky osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Nagrodzki et al. (@yacnag) examine attentional negativity bias in depression, linking slower processing of angry faces to increased activity in the insula, IFG, and parietal cortex. Findings suggest this bias may persist in remission: doi.org/10.1037/emo0... @APA_Journals
- Reposted by Cam-CANTemporal autocorrelation is predictive of age — out now! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We used @camcan-2010.bsky.social #MEG data and massive time-series feature extraction (hctsa) to understand which aspects of neural activity predict a person's age. #PNAS #aging #MEG #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
