If we’re lucky, we get old. Physical and mental decline are negative hallmark associations of aging. Imagine being born blind and, as you approach middle age, waking up with the ability to see. In this issue of PLOS Genetics, Cornils, Maurya, and colleagues discover such a phenomenon: age-related suppression of ciliogenesis defects [1]. Cilia are microtubule-based organelles that protrude from ...

Objective: This paper aimed to provide a systematic review of brand identity and understand how literature streams impact the current frameworks. Method: There are few reviews about this salient topic, existing ones have not analyzed research in has evolved last 30 years, what been leading gaps, which future avenues study could be pursued. To fill gap, 67 articles published 24 academic journals...

Some thirty years ago Walter P. Pitkin wrote a book called Life Begins at Forty. Its sales rocketed to millions and it probably helped to crystallize the attractive image of youthful middle-age which beguiles us from the pages of American magazines, with its sun-tanned greying men with flashing teeth, skilfully concealing girth under colourful, capacious, Hawaian shirts, or those icily elegant,...

ft >^VIV ? V T IV I47 'laHenge of Middle Age. By J. H. Wallis. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, PK12s. 6d.) atrot,lems of mental health and mental illness present themselves in different ways e various periods of development in the life of an individual. In middle age faced with biological changes such as the menopause, early signs of ageing ^fulfi rea^sati?n that ltfe wiU inevitably draw to a close wi...