Favored by increased life expectancy and reduced birth rate, worldwide demography is rapidly shifting to older ages. The golden age of aging is not only an achievement but also a big challenge because of the load of the elderly on social and medical health care systems. Moreover, the impact of age-related decline of attention, memory, reasoning and executive functions on self-sufficiency emphasizes the need of interventions to maintain cognitive abilities at a useful degree in old age. Recently, neuroscientific research explored the chance to apply Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NiBS) techniques (as transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation) to healthy aging population to preserve or enhance physiologically-declining cognitive functions. The present review will update and address the current state of the art on NiBS in healthy aging. Feasibility of NiBS techniques will be discussed in light of recent neuroimaging (either structural or functional) and neurophysiological models proposed to explain neural substrates of the physiologically aging brain. Further, the chance to design multidisciplinary interventions to maximize the efficacy of NiBS techniques will be introduced as a necessary future direction.

Tatti, E., Rossi, S., Innocenti, I., Rossi, A., Santarnecchi, E. (2016). Non-invasive brain stimulation of the aging brain: State of the art and future perspectives. AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS, 29, 66-89 [10.1016/j.arr.2016.05.006].

Non-invasive brain stimulation of the aging brain: State of the art and future perspectives

ROSSI, SIMONE;INNOCENTI, IGLIS;ROSSI, ALESSANDRO;SANTARNECCHI, EMILIANO
2016-01-01

Abstract

Favored by increased life expectancy and reduced birth rate, worldwide demography is rapidly shifting to older ages. The golden age of aging is not only an achievement but also a big challenge because of the load of the elderly on social and medical health care systems. Moreover, the impact of age-related decline of attention, memory, reasoning and executive functions on self-sufficiency emphasizes the need of interventions to maintain cognitive abilities at a useful degree in old age. Recently, neuroscientific research explored the chance to apply Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NiBS) techniques (as transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation) to healthy aging population to preserve or enhance physiologically-declining cognitive functions. The present review will update and address the current state of the art on NiBS in healthy aging. Feasibility of NiBS techniques will be discussed in light of recent neuroimaging (either structural or functional) and neurophysiological models proposed to explain neural substrates of the physiologically aging brain. Further, the chance to design multidisciplinary interventions to maximize the efficacy of NiBS techniques will be introduced as a necessary future direction.
2016
Tatti, E., Rossi, S., Innocenti, I., Rossi, A., Santarnecchi, E. (2016). Non-invasive brain stimulation of the aging brain: State of the art and future perspectives. AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS, 29, 66-89 [10.1016/j.arr.2016.05.006].
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