Furthermore, these data suggest that dietary interventions that positively affect glucose homeostasis may confer important cognitive benefits.
Among 208 participants aged 60 82, we examine the relationship between MRI abnormalities, often described as age-related, and performance on tests estimating premorbid intelligence and cognitive impairment, in relation to factors that may confer resilience against cognitive impairment, including education and premorbid IQ.
Moreover, apart from a few exceptions, studies of cognitive deficits have ignored factors that may confer functional resilience against structural brain damage.
In addition, variations in human telomerase gene are associated with better maintenance of telomere length; longer telomeres are associated with protection from age-related diseases, better cognitive function, and lipid profiles, thus may confer healthy aging and exceptional longevity [ 151].
We suggest that a gradually improving ability to be aware of one's own thoughts and behaviour during this period may confer particular benefits for development including the emergence of high level cognitive competencies.
This suggests that darting during fear conditioning does not interfere with the formation or memory of the tone-shock association, but may confer a long-term protective or adaptive state that promotes increased cognitive flexibility and thus enhanced extinction maintenance (Maren et al., 2013).
It is possible, for example, that changes in the quantity and distribution of adipose tissue in older age are adaptive and may confer a protective effect to the brain that minimizes the risk of cognitive decline, and that the loss of adipose tissue may deprive the aging brain of that benefit [31].
Psychologists who examine this tendency - sometimes called cognitive dissonance - have speculated that refusing to face the truth may confer an evolutionary advantage.
The discrepancy also highlights an opportunity to correct cognitive models for concordant conditions to improve clinical care for patients whose comorbidities may confer additive risk.
A mutation that confers lethality, he explained, may confer another advantage scientists have not pinned down.
