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Midlife managerial experience is linked to late life hippocampal morphology and function.

ABSTRACT: An active cognitive lifestyle has been suggested to have a protective role in the long-term maintenance of cognition. Amongst healthy older adults, more managerial or supervisory experiences in midlife are linked to a slower hippocampal atrophy rate in late life. Yet whether similar links exist in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is not known, nor whether these differences have any functional implications. 68 volunteers from the Sydney SMART Trial, diagnosed with non-amnestic MCI, were divided into high and low managerial experience (HME/LME) during their working life. All participants underwent neuropsychological testing, structural and resting-state functional MRI. Group comparisons were performed on hippocampal volume, morphology, hippocampal seed-based functional connectivity, memory and executive function and self-ratings of memory proficiency. HME was linked to better memory function (p?=?0.024), mediated by larger hippocampal volume (p?=?0.025). More specifically, deformation analysis found HME had relatively more volume in the CA1 sub-region of the hippocampus (p?

SUBMITTER: Suo C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5408055 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Midlife managerial experience is linked to late life hippocampal morphology and function.

Suo C C Gates N N Fiatarone Singh M M Saigal N N Wilson G C GC Meiklejohn J J Sachdev P P Brodaty H H Wen W W Singh N N Baune B T BT Baker M M Foroughi N N Wang Y Y Valenzuela Michael J MJ

Brain imaging and behavior 20170401 2

An active cognitive lifestyle has been suggested to have a protective role in the long-term maintenance of cognition. Amongst healthy older adults, more managerial or supervisory experiences in midlife are linked to a slower hippocampal atrophy rate in late life. Yet whether similar links exist in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is not known, nor whether these differences have any functional implications. 68 volunteers from the Sydney SMART Trial, diagnosed with non-amnestic MCI ...[more]

PMID: 27848149

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Midlife managerial experience is linked to late life hippocampal morphology and function.

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Midlife managerial experience is linked to late life hippocampal morphology and function.

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