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Fish oil supplementation, physical activity and risk of incident Parkinson’s disease: results of longitudinal analysis from the UK Biobank

ObjectiveEvidence on the individual and combined relationship of physical activity (PA) and fish oil supplement use on the incidence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) risk remains lacking.Materials and methodsThis UK population-based prospective cohort study, involving 385,275 UK Biobank participants, collected PA and fish oil supplement data via touchscreen questionnaires. Using Cox proportional hazards models and restricted […]

Published on January 29, 2024

Representational structures as a unifying framework for attention

Our visual system consciously processes only a subset of the incoming information. Selective attention allows us to prioritize relevant inputs, and can be allocated to features, locations, and objects. Recent advances in feature-based attention suggest that several selection principles are shared across these domains and that many differences between the effects of attention on perceptual […]

Published on January 28, 2024

Participant diversity is necessary to advance brain aging research

An absence of population-representative participant samples has limited research in healthy brain aging. We highlight examples of what can be gained by enrolling more diverse participant cohorts, and propose recommendations for specific reforms, both in terms of how researchers accomplish this goal and how institutions support and benchmark these efforts. Read Full Article (External Site) […]

Published on January 27, 2024