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Embracing Age: Debunking Myths and Dispelling Fears About Aging
This article discusses and debunks myths and stereotypes about aging. Whether you’re young or old, learn how age-related stereotypes can benefit both yourself and those in your community.
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Understanding Cellular Aging
In my last article, I talked about epigenetics and how we can measure epigenetic changes (read here if you missed it). Now we’re moving on to the good stuff—how we assess epigenetic aging and what it means for biological and psychological research. Many Different Clocks With about 20,000 protein-coding genes, there is a big…
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Do Our Cells Age as Quickly as We Do?
Measuring Chronological Age Aging is something that we all experience, but that we still struggle to understand. We know that aging is natural and allows us to mature, and is ultimately related to natural mortality. Many researchers have sought to develop a measure for aging in our cells. A measure of aging can help us…
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Benefitting Ourselves While Benefitting Others: The Importance of Generativity
“How to Talk About Dying” was the name of one of the “Most Emailed” articles on The New York Times website in early July. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, written by bestselling author and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Dr. Atul Gawande, has an average of 5 out of 5 stars with…
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Multitasking Video Game Improves Cognition in 79-year-olds!
Today, Nature published evidence that training on a multitasking video game improved older adults’ cognitive ability beyond the scope of the game to untrained aspects of cognition. The article featured a four-year research led by Drs. Adam Gazzaley and Joaquin Anguera at UCSF. They utilised a relatively simple video game, NeuroRacer to train older adults on multitasking. NeuroRacer requires participants to drive a cartoon car, and to respond…
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Underestimating How Often Others Experience Negative Emotions May Lead to Increased Loneliness and Decreased Life Satisfaction
A series of recent studies suggests that people consistently underestimate the prevalence with which others experience negative emotions – and that this error may lead to increased loneliness, more brooding over personal problems, and decreased life satisfaction. The authors of these studies propose at least two reasons why individuals may underestimate the frequency with which…