Newswise: NIH Grant aims to enhance scientific models of aging focused on creating better intervention tools for age-related decline

November 6, 2020

Adam Salmon, PhD, associate professor in the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, is included in this story about new grant funding and studies of aging in marmosets to better understand and define the hallmarks of aging in nonhuman primates. The research is being conducted with Texas Biomedical Research Institute. Read […]

Researchers discover genes linked to brain shrinkage

October 2, 2020

A new study implicates 160 genes in brain shrinkage seen on MRIs of 45,000 healthy adults. The shrinkage is in the cortex, the dimply outer layer of the brain that gives rise to thinking, awareness and action, and largely consists of gray matter.



Psychology Today: Why gray matter volume and white matter connectivity matter

September 28, 2020

A team of researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, along with dozens of collaborators from around the globe, published a paper (Hofer et al., 2020) that identifies 160 genes linked to brain shrinkage (as indexed by a reduction in gray matter volume, surface area, and thickness) in 34 anatomically […]

Barshop Institute gains grant award renewals totaling $11 million to support translating research discoveries into healthier aging

September 10, 2020

The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies gained the renewal of two highly competitive center grants awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The Pepper and Shock grants, which total $11 million over the next five years, support basic research of the biology of aging and translation of discoveries into human application.