Impact of social isolation on grey matter structure and cognitive functions: A population-based longitudinal neuroimaging study

Social isolation contributes to human brain atrophy and cognitive decline, indicating an opportunity to reduce dementia risk by promoting social networks.

#Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #NeurologicalDiseases #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #Neurodegeneration #Alzheimer
#CognitiveDecline #CognitiveDysfunction #Dementia #Hippocampus #Neuroimaging #NeuroImage #SocialIsolation #SocialBond
#Biomedicine #Health

https://elifesciences.org/articles/83660

Social Bonds Protect Aging Brains

Social isolation can potentially harm brain structure and cognitive performance, suggesting an increased risk of conditions like Alzheimer’s dementia.
A lack of quality social interaction can lead to a decrease in the hippocampus’s volume, crucial for memory formation and retrieval, and poorer cognitive performance.

#Neuroscience #Brain #Neurology #NeurologicalDiseases #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #Neurodegeneration #Alzheimer
#CognitiveDecline #CognitiveDysfunction #Dementia #Hippocampus #Neuroimaging #NeuroImage #SocialIsolation #SocialBond
#Biomedicine #Health

https://neurosciencenews.com/social-aging-neuroscience-brain-23505/

More evidence that some #publishers set #APCs based on #prestige & what they think the market will bear, not production #costs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/neuroimage-elsevier-editorial-board-journal-profit/

"#Elsevier told editors that fees were based on a journal’s reputation —specifically, their #ImpactFactor. As the editors grew the journal’s prestige, Elsevier increased the publication fee by about 15%…Keilholz…concluded that the incentives for #ForProfit publishers were not aligned with 'what we want for science.' "

#NeuroImage

I accepted to review a paper for an #elsevier owned journal two weeks ago. Seeing the recent amazing move of #Neuroimage editorial board (see boosts), I am wondering whether I should still give this review to be nice to the editor and the authors or whether I should withdraw from my role to protest and also encourage editors/authors to stop dealing with #Elsevier journals 🤔

A question I've wondered about--what is the most valid and informative way to ask about gender and sex in brain studies? This review argues that continuous multidimensional measures of gender can reveal things you wouldn't see with simple sex assigned at birth or gender labels
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RT @Lise_Eliot
Check out our new paper in #NeuroImage: Breaking the binary: Gender versus sex analysis in human brain imaging. https://www.sciencedirect.com/…
https://twitter.com/Lise_Eliot/status/1596144246888706048