{"id":896392,"date":"2026-10-27T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896392\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:40:07","slug":"at-80-hes-a-top-dementia-expert-heres-how-he-keeps-his-brain-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896392\/","title":{"rendered":"At 80, he\u2019s a top dementia expert. Here\u2019s how he keeps his brain healthy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3BUO4DA4DBCB7M6MFSAQIGMUNI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For more than 50 years, Ron Petersen has studied healthy aging, cognition and dementia. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GZGOQVNUZRFL7JH7PHY2S4ZA3Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Petersen\u2019s research established the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/07\/25\/it-normal-forget-some-things-heres-when-see-doctor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/07\/25\/it-normal-forget-some-things-heres-when-see-doctor\/\">mild cognitive impairment<\/a>, which lies between healthy cognitive aging and dementia. This idea changed how doctors and scientists study cognitive health by emphasizing earlier detection and lifestyle changes. Petersen has co-written over 1,500 peer-reviewed articles and works full-time in clinical research as the director of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, where he also sees patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than 50 years, Ron Petersen has studied healthy aging, cognition and dementia. Petersen\u2019s research established the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-896392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}