Keith Cole, DPT, PhD, assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, has received a Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging for research into the pathophysiological changes associated with changes in gait and cognition in older adults, known as dual decline.

Growth hormone is released during sleep, strengthening bone and muscle and burning fat, but how lack of sleep interferes with growth hormone release has been a mystery. UC Berkeley researchers studying the hypothalamus in mice have found two circuits that balance growth hormone release, operating differently in REM sleep and non-REM sleep. The findings could open new avenues for treating sleep disorders tied to metabolic conditions like diabetes or degenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Game-based training improves not only the cognitive abilities of people with initial signs of developing dementia, but also leads to positive changes in the brain. That is according to two new studies by researchers from ETH Zurich and Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST).