Cognitive Frailty: Where Physical and Cognitive Decline Intersect
Physical frailty and cognitive decline share biological roots—understanding their intersection reveals new intervention possibilities.
Age Differences in Susceptibility to Cognitive Biases
Some cognitive biases intensify with age while others paradoxically diminish—the pattern reveals how minds reorganize rather than simply decline.
Crystallized Intelligence Keeps Growing: What Fluid Intelligence Cannot Teach You
Fluid intelligence fades while crystallized intelligence grows—understanding this divergence transforms how we think about aging minds
How Wisdom Develops: From Experience to Integrated Understanding
Beyond folk concepts lies the empirical science of how wisdom actually develops across the adult lifespan
Cognitive Training Transfer: What Actually Generalizes
Decades of research reveal which brain training approaches produce real cognitive gains beyond the trained tasks
Sleep Architecture Changes Across the Lifespan and Cognitive Consequences
How transformations in slow-wave sleep and spindle activity reshape memory consolidation from young adulthood through late life
Cognitive Control in Aging: Why Inhibition Becomes Harder
Understanding how weakened suppression mechanisms reshape cognition reveals why certain challenges emerge and what interventions actually help.
Why Memory Complaints Don't Match Memory Performance in Aging
The gap between how older adults perceive their memory and how it actually performs reveals complex metacognitive, emotional, and neurobiological dynamics with profound clinical implications.
Selective Optimization with Compensation: The Architecture of Successful Aging
How strategic selection, optimization, and compensation transform inevitable losses into continued functional capacity and well-being across the lifespan.
Bilingualism and Cognitive Reserve: Evaluating the Evidence
Separating robust science from wishful thinking in claims about bilingual brain protection
Goal Disengagement in Aging: When Letting Go Is Adaptive
Why the developmental capacity to release unattainable goals predicts well-being better than persistence in later life
The Paradox of Aging: Why Older Adults Report Greater Well-Being
How perceiving limited time transforms emotional priorities and attention patterns, enabling many older adults to achieve well-being that eludes younger people.
Why Cognitive Reserve Determines Who Thrives in Old Age
How your brain's accumulated compensatory capacity determines whether neuropathology leads to decline or resilient function into late life.
Decision-Making Quality Across the Adult Lifespan
Why slowing down doesn't mean deciding poorly—the neuroscience of preserved wisdom and strategic vulnerability in aging minds.