The California Verbal Learning Test and other standard clinical neuropsychological tests to predict conversion from mild memory impairment to dementia.

in Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology (2010), 20

Does Retirement Affect Cognitive Functioning?

Report (2010)

This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. On the one hand the HRS, a longitudinal survey among individuals aged 50+ living in the United States ... [more ▼]

This paper analyzes the effect of retirement on cognitive functioning using two large scale surveys. On the one hand the HRS, a longitudinal survey among individuals aged 50+ living in the United States, allows us to control for individual heterogeneity and endogeneity of the retirement decision by using the eligibility age for Social Security as an instrument. On the other hand, a comparable international European survey, SHARE, allows us to identify the causal effect of retirement on cognitive functioning by using the cross-country differences in the age-pattern of retirement. The results highlight in both cases a significant negative, and quantitatively comparable, effect of retirement on cognitive functioning. Our results suggest that promoting labor force participation of older workers is not only desirable to insure the viability of retirement schemes, but it could also delay cognitive decline, and thus the occurrence of associated impairments at older age. [less ▲]

Le concept de réserve cognitive: implications en terme de prévention du vieillissement cognitif normal et pathologique

Scientific conference (2009, December 17)

Le concept de réserve cognitive : Implications en termes de prévention du vieillissement normal et pathologique

Scientific conference (2009, November 19)

Comment aider les personnes atteintes de la maladie d'Alzheimer à lutter contre l'apathie?

Conference (2009, November 13)

La neuropsychologie dans le contexte du MCI: Intérêts par rapport au diagnostic précoce et à la prise en charge

Conference (2009, October 16)

Impact de l'activité (professionnelle ou non) sur la santé mentale de la personne âgée: Implications en termes de prévention du vieillissement cognitif normal et pathologique

Scientific conference (2009, October 09)

Le cerveau se construit tout au long de la vie

Diverse speeche and writing (2009)

RI48 in very early AD

Conference (2009, July 06)

Specificity of Inhibitory Deficits in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

in Neurobiology of Aging (2009), 30

Deficits of suppression abilities are frequently observed in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. However, few studies have explored these deficits in the two populations simultaneously using a large ... [more ▼]

Deficits of suppression abilities are frequently observed in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. However, few studies have explored these deficits in the two populations simultaneously using a large battery of tasks. The aim of the present study was to explore if the pattern of performance presented by elderly subjects and AD patients is in agreement with theoretical frameworks [Wilson, S.P., Harnishfeger, K.K., 1998. The development of efficient inhibition: Evidence from directed forgetting tasks. Dev. Rev. 18, 86-123; see also Nigg J.T., 2000. On inhibition/disinhibition in developmental psychopathology: views from cognitive and personality psychology and a working inhibition taxonomy. Psychol. Bull. 126, 220-246], distinguishing between the concepts of inhibition (a voluntary suppression of irrelevant information) and interference (an automatic suppression process occurring prior to conscious awareness). The results obtained demonstrated that (1) there is an alteration of the inhibitory process in normal elderly subjects; (2) inhibitory and interference resolution processes are quantitately less efficient in AD, since these patients present a correct performance only for information which leaves weak traces in memory. [less ▲]