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- Title
Normal Aging Induces Changes in the Brain and Neurodegeneration Progress: Review of the Structural, Biochemical, Metabolic, Cellular, and Molecular Changes.
- Authors
Lee, Jiseon; Kim, Hee-Jin
- Abstract
Aging is accompanied by many changes in brain and contributes to progressive cognitive decline. In contrast to pathological changes in brain, normal aging brain changes have relatively mild but important changes in structural, biochemical and molecular level. Representatively, aging associated brain changes include atrophy of tissues, alteration in neurotransmitters and damage accumulation in cellular environment. These effects have causative link with age associated changes which ultimately results in cognitive decline. Although several evidences were found in normal aging changes of brain, it is not clearly integrated. Figuring out aging related changes in brain is important as aging is the process that everyone goes through, and comprehensive understanding may help to progress further studies. This review clarifies normal aging brain changes in an asymptotic and comprehensive manner, from a gross level to a microscopic and molecular level, and discusses potential approaches to seek the changes with cognitive decline.
- Subjects
BRAIN; ACTIVE aging; COGNITIVE aging; AGING; NEURODEGENERATION
- Publication
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022, Vol 14, p1
- ISSN
1663-4365
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnagi.2022.931536