/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8544/all en /newsroom/channels/news/cognitive-aging-research-agreeing-key-terms-definitions-290532 <p>Interpreting age-related changes and differences in brain structure, activation and functional connectivity is an ongoing challenge. Ambiguous terminology is a major source of this challenge. For example, the terms “compensation”, “maintenance”, and “reserve” are used in different ways by researchers. Most of the time, they disagree about the kind of evidence or patterns of results required to interpret findings related to these concepts.</p> <p> </p> Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:06:59 +0000 jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca 88187 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/middle-age-memory-decline-matter-changing-focus-261683 <p><a href="/newsroom"><em><strong>ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</strong></em></a></p> <p><em>Research sheds new light on what constitutes healthy aging of the brain</em></p> <p>The inability to remember details, such as the location of objects, begins in early midlife (the 40s) and may be the result of a change in what information the brain focuses on during memory formation and retrieval, rather than a decline in brain function, according to a study by ƻ����Ժ researchers.</p> Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:24:07 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 26011 at /newsroom