Synaptic slide into old age

Efficient Complex Skill Training into Old Age

The studies presented in this dissertation were funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, The Hague, project no. 575-22-006). They were conducted at Maastricht University and at the Open University of The Netherlands in Heerlen. The conference presentations emerging from this project were financed by grants provided by NWO and the Limburg University Fund (SWOL). ecaus...

Enquiries into mental disorder in old age.

Statistical data from different parts of the world all tell a similar tale of a rapidly rising rate of admission of old people to mental hospitals.40 Although it has been often claimed that the stresses of modern life involve an all round increase in the incidence of mental illness, a careful investigation of the changes in first-admission rate to mental hospital in Massachusetts by Goldhamer a...

Vesicles slide on a synaptic body

for continuous transmitter release. This requires a lasting supply of synaptic vesicles. A new article by David Lenzi, William Roberts (University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon), and colleagues suggests that the SB is a source of these vesicles. The distribution of vesicles on the SB changes sharply in response to stimulation, as seen in electron tomography maps of inhibited versus strongly stimula...

Promoting health and improving survival into very old age.

Most people can stay fit and healthy into old age

Bruno Vellas tells Fiona Fleck why governments must act now to help older people stay fit and healthy.