Reaction time, as a measure of brain health, is influenced by aging and a variety of other factors, including education, sex, smoking, dizziness, the number of daily medications, family medical history, and even whether one favors using their right or left hand.
In a study published in npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, looked at data collected from more than 159,000 participants in TGen’s online cognitive test called MindCrowd (and augmented with data from an additional 500,000 individuals from a biomedical research resource in the…
