Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-19T17:14:37.722Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Childhood viral infections may be beneficial to cognition in old age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Arad Kodesh*
Affiliation:
Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Meuhedet Health Services, Mental Health, Tel Aviv, Israel
Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Commentary
Copyright
© International Psychogeriatric Association 2021

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alexander, F. E. etal. (2000). Risk factors for Hodgkin’s disease by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) status: prior infection by EBV and other agents. British Journal of Cancer, 82, 11171121.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Amirian, E. S. etal. (2016). History of chickenpox in glioma risk: a report from the glioma international case-control study (GICC). Cancer Medicine, 5, 13521358.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Calabrese, E. J. (2016). Preconditioning is hormesis part II: how the conditioning dose mediates protection: dose optimization within temporal and mechanistic frameworks. Pharmacological Research, 110, 265275.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Calabrese, V. etal. (2016). Major pathogenic mechanisms in vascular dementia: roles of cellular stress response and hormesis in neuroprotection. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 94, 15881603.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Camini, F. C., da Silva Caetano, C. C., Almeida, L. T. and de Brito Magalhaes, C. L. (2017). Implications of oxidative stress on viral pathogenesis. Archives of Virology, 162, 907917.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chen, Y and Baram, T. Z. (2016). Toward understanding how early-life stress reprograms cognitive and emotional brain networks. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41, 197206.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Concetta Scuto, M. etal. (2019). Curcumin, hormesis and the nervous system. Nutrients, 11. doi: 10.3390/nu11102417 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Griffiin, W. S. T. and Mrak, R, E. (2009). The hygiene hypothesis and Darwinian medicine. Berlin: Springer.Google Scholar
Joels, M. and Baram, T. Z. (2009). The neuro-symphony of stress. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10, 459466.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mattson, M. P. (2008). Hormesis defined. Ageing Research Reviews, 7, 17.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rook, G. A. (2010). 99th Dahlem conference on infection, inflammation and chronic inflammatory disorders: darwinian medicine and the ‘hygiene’ or ‘old friends’ hypothesis. Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 160, 7079.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rotstein, A. and Levine, S. (2020). Childhood infection diseases and old age cognitive functioning: nationally representative sample of community-dwelling older adults. International Psychogeriatrics, 33, 7582.Google Scholar