In a group of 670 older Singaporeans, this study looked at the link between sense of smell and mild memory problems, using a locally developed smell test alongside standard memory and thinking tests.
This five-year follow-up study looked at a Singapore community programme offering mindfulness, gardening, art, and choir singing, comparing long-term thinking-skill outcomes between those who took part and those who did not.
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Using brain scans and computer models, this study found that a bigger gap between a person’s ‘brain age’ and their real age was linked to shorter telomeres (a marker of cellular ageing), especially when brain age was estimated from how well-connected different brain regions were.
This five-year follow-up study looked at whether older Singaporeans who had earlier taken part in activities like mindfulness, gardening, art, or choir singing had better thinking skills and fewer depressive symptoms later on, compared with those who hadn’t.
In a large Singapore survey, about 1 in 8 elderly people had mild memory problems. Men were more likely to have the type mainly affecting memory, while women were more likely to have the type affecting other thinking skills, like planning or attention.
This study found that a brain-growth protein called BDNF was actually higher, not lower, in the blood of older adults with mild memory problems compared with healthy peers, and could reliably tell the two groups apart. The researchers suggest this rise may be the brain’s way of compensating for early decline.
This study protocol describes a trial testing whether mindfulness training can help prevent dementia in older adults with mild memory problems, tracking effects on thinking skills as well as a range of blood and brain markers linked to ageing.
This study followed community-dwelling older Singaporeans over several years to see whether taking part in activities like art, music, or gardening was linked to slower memory decline and fewer depressive symptoms.
This study created local Singapore benchmarks for a set of computerized memory and thinking tests, using data from 210 older adults, and checked how well these newer tests matched up with traditional pen-and-paper tests.
This brain-scan study looked at how depression and anxiety symptoms relate to brain connectivity patterns in older adults with mild memory problems, finding some overlapping but also some distinct brain networks linked to each type of symptom.
