A recent study has found that non-invasive stimulation of the right cerebellum can improve episodic memory performance in healthy elderly individuals, even after a follow-up period of four months. With an increasing aging population, understanding the relationship between the aging brain and cognitive decline is becoming increasingly important. The study, published in GeroScience, highlighted the role of the cerebellum in regulating and maintaining cognitive processing, and opens up the possibility of developing non-pharmacological interventions to ameliorate age-related cognitive frailty. Further information on the study can be found in the article “The cerebellum is causally involved in episodic memory under aging” by Jorge Almeida et al in GeroScience (DOI: 10.1007/s11357-023-00738-0). The study was supported by the BIAL Foundation.
