About this Research Topic
The popular term “brain fitness” is associated with a healthy lifestyle and activities that stimulate the brain, delaying or even treating age-related neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Since lifestyle factors like physical activity can be viewed as inexpensive, modifiable factors, many non-pharmacological interventions with the ability to delay or maintain cognitive level related to aging and neurodegenerative diseases may have a mechanistic component that can be explained through animal and molecular experiments.
Science and technology has created different tools that give us the ability to observe the effect of interventions in the central and peripheral nervous systems in humans. Additional questions about the quantity and timing during an individual's life as to when to change or start a new lifestyle remain unanswered.
Furthermore, the relationship between the clinical and biological outcomes is still unclear. Is having a sustained healthy lifestyle beneficial for brain and cognitive health?
The main objective of this Research Topic is to show studies that use lifestyle or nonpharmacological interventions as the main variable of interest in studies on clinical and biological markers of cognitive decline in normal and pathological aging.
We are specifically seeking articles focused on involving lifestyle factors with brain and cognitive aging, clinical AND biological parameters influenced by the lifestyle on:
- Normal Aging process
- Aging-related diseases
- Women’s health
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Psychiatric disorders
Science and technology has created different tools that give us the ability to observe the effect of interventions in the central and peripheral nervous systems in humans. Additional questions about the quantity and timing during an individual's life as to when to change or start a new lifestyle remain unanswered.
Furthermore, the relationship between the clinical and biological outcomes is still unclear. Is having a sustained healthy lifestyle beneficial for brain and cognitive health?
The main objective of this Research Topic is to show studies that use lifestyle or nonpharmacological interventions as the main variable of interest in studies on clinical and biological markers of cognitive decline in normal and pathological aging.
We are specifically seeking articles focused on involving lifestyle factors with brain and cognitive aging, clinical AND biological parameters influenced by the lifestyle on:
- Normal Aging process
- Aging-related diseases
- Women’s health
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Psychiatric disorders
Keywords: Lifestyle, Physical activity, Brain, Cognition, Depression, Neurodegenerative diseases, social interaction
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