Many studies have been done on how to improve or maintain cognitive ability in aging adults, and now a Colorado State University researcher is exploring a novel way to accurately measure changes in cognition within that population.
Allison Bielak, an associate professor in CSU’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies, has completed a three-year project funded by the National Institutes of Health to examine reaction times in older adults who participated in new activity programs.
The degree to which an individual’s reaction times vary can be a sensitive indicator of neurological integrity, and can even predict the…
