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Discovery of the day · Neurology
Social network characteristics and cognitive function, decline, and mortality: A joint modeling approach
Dear Damien Boorman, this is your personalized scientific intelligence briefing — curated for your work in Neurology.
Key finding
Medicine · Neurology · Cognition
Discovery of the day
A recent study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia demonstrates that structural and functional social network characteristics are associated with better executive function and verbal episodic memory in adults aged 90 and older. Researchers from the LifeAfter90 Study analyzed data from 677 participants over 1.63 years of follow-up using joint models to account for the competing risk of mortality. This finding is directly relevant to your work in neuroscience and chronic pain, as it underscores the importance of psychosocial factors—analogous to the context-dependent mechanisms you study in placebo analgesia—in preserving cognitive function in the oldest old, offering a new dimension for understanding brain health that aligns with your goal of using knowledge to improve well-being.
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80%
Validity
82%
Clarity
88%
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