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  • Neurology
  • Gerontology
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Understanding cognitive aging is crucial for distinguishing normal changes from pathological decline.
  • Previous studies have often focused on cross-sectional data or shorter longitudinal periods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize the trajectories of cognitive aging in older adults.
  • To investigate the relationship between neuropathological markers and cognitive decline.
  • To differentiate normative cognitive aging from non-normative processes.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal cognitive testing over up to 24 years in 1,010 older adults without dementia.
  • Functional mixed-effects models to analyze heterogeneous cognitive trajectories.
  • Quantification of nine postmortem neuropathological markers (neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular).

Main Results:

  • Postmortem markers were associated with global cognitive decline.
  • Residual cognitive decline, after accounting for pathology, was weakly related to age at death and occurred in a subset of participants, mostly near death.
  • Decline not explained by pathology was confined to specific cognitive domains (episodic memory, perceptual speed) and occurred near death.

Conclusions:

  • Late-life cognitive loss is predominantly influenced by non-normative pathological and mortality-related factors.
  • Normative aging processes play a lesser role in significant cognitive decline observed late in life.
  • Neuropathological burden is a key determinant of cognitive trajectories in aging.