Yuta Katsumi, Bonnie Wong, Michele Cavallari, Tamara G Fong, David C Alsop, Joseph M Andreano, Nicole Carvalho, Michael Brickhouse, Richard Jones, Towia A Libermann, Edward R Marcantonio, Eva Schmitt, Mouhsin M Shafi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Thomas Travison, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Sharon K Inouye, Bradford C Dickerson, Alexandra Touroutoglou
Despite its devastating clinical and societal impact, approaches to treat delirium in older adults remain elusive, making it important to identify factors that may confer resilience to this syndrome. Here, we investigated a cohort of 93 cognitively normal older patients undergoing elective surgery recruited as part of the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery study. Each participant was classified either as a SuperAger ( n = 19) or typically aging older adult ( n = 74) based on neuropsychological criteria, where the former was defined as those older adults whose memory function rivals that of young adults...
2022: Brain communications