Spontaneous blinking and brain health in aging: Large-scale evaluation of blink-related oscillations across the lifespan.

ABSTRACT: Blink-related oscillations (BROs) are newly discovered neurophysiological brainwave responses associated with spontaneous blinking, and represent environmental monitoring and awareness processes as the brain evaluates new visual information appearing after eye re-opening. BRO responses have been demonstrated in healthy young adults across multiple task states and are modulated by both task and environmental factors, but little is known about this phenomenon in aging. To address this, we undertook the first large-scale evaluation of BRO responses in healthy aging using the Cambridge Centre for Aging and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) repository, which contains magnetoencephalography (MEG) data from a large sample (N = 457) of healthy adults across a broad age range (18-88) during the perform

SUBMITTER: Ghosh Hajra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11747640 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature