Neuroinformatics in Aging WG outputs

The INCF Working Group on Neuroinformatics in Aging was formed in reaction to the observation that countries in Asia Pacific face a major societal burden due to decline in mental abilities and health of the rapidly aging population. Since its founding, the working group has arranged one meeting per year in the conference series BrainConnects. 

The group defines “Neuroinformatics of aging” as a multidisciplinary field where the management and analysis of data is combined with neurorobotics, neuropsychology, clinical neurology and social neuroscience to delay mental decline or improve the mental abilities among the aging.

Given the COVID situation in 2020, the group was unable to hold their yearly BrainConnects conference in person. Instead they announced a Frontiers article theme, Neuroimaging and Informatics for Successful Aging and called on the international community to submit papers. So far, 14 papers have been submitted and a few more are in the pipeline. The research theme has been viewed nearly 12 000 times!

Current articles:

• Impact of Early-Commenced and Continued Sports Training on the Precuneus in Older Athletes
• Neurodegeneration and vascular burden on cognition after midlife: A plasma and neuroimaging biomarker study
• Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Epileptogenicity in Alzheimer’s Disease
• Characteristics of Neural Network Changes in Normal Aging and Early Dementia
• Differences in Diffusion Tensor Imaging White Matter Integrity Related to Verbal Fluency Between Young and Old Adults
• Regional Cortical Thickness Predicts Top Cognitive Performance in the Elderly
• Resting State Networks Related to the Maintenance of Good Cognitive Performance During Healthy Aging
• Young and aged neuronal tissue dynamics with a simplified neuronal patch cellular automata model
• BrainFD: Measuring the Intracranial Brain Volume With Fractal Dimension
• Is There Any Relationship Between Biochemical Indices and Anthropometry Measurements with Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation among Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment?
• Impact of Early-Commenced and Continued Sports Training on the Precuneus in Older Athletes
• Neural advantages of older musicians involve the cerebellum: Implications for healthy aging through lifelong musical instrument training
• Neurodegeneration and Vascular Burden on Cognition After Midlife: A Plasma and Neuroimaging Biomarker Study
• The Influence of Aging on the Functional Connectivity of the Human Basal Ganglia