Successful Aging

报告人：Lars-Göran  Nilsson教授

瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学心理学系

日 期：10月11日（周四）

时 间：14:00 - 16:00

地 点：中国科学院心理研究所

摘要：The concept of successful aging will be discussed and  defined. Using a very strict and conservative definition of successful aging on  data from the longitudinal, prospective Betula Study, several expected, but also  unexpected, observations were made. The far most important non-cognitive factor  related to successful aging is education, followed by factors like gender and  health. There are surprisingly few associations to various genes. Also  surprising is to see that none of those ,who had been classified as successfully  aged 15 years earlier had been diagnosed as demented, although several of them  were carriers of the e4 allele of ApolipoproteinE (APOE), which is a risk factor  for Alzheimer’s disease. Research is underway in trying to find other genes that  interact with APOE in a protective way.

主讲人简介：

诺贝尔经济学奖评奖人；

瑞典皇家科学院院士；

PsyCh  Journal主编。

Betula ProjectThe Betula Project is a longitudinal study on  aging, memory and dementia and has been going on for a period of 20 years.The participants of the project have been  tested, interviewed and examined medically at five occasions (1988-1990,  1993-1995, 1998-2000, 2003-2005 and 2008-2010).The main objectives of the project is to study how memory functions change  during adult life and old age, to identify risk factors for dementia and to  identify early preclinical signs of dementia.

中国科学院心理健康重点实验室

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