Speaker: Prof. Lars-Göran Nilsson
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
Time: 14:00pm - 16:00pm
Date: Oct 11(Thu), 2012
Venue: Lecture Hall, North Building
Abstract:
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.
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