S. Duke Han|Patricia A. Boyle|Lei Yu|Debra Fleischman|Konstantinos Arfanakis|Sue E. Leurgans|David A. Bennett
Financial literacy is associated with medial brain region functional connectivity in old age
Rush University Medical Center|VA Long Beach Healthcare System|Rush University Medical Center|Rush University Medical Center|Rush University Medical Center|Illinois Institute of Technology|Rush University Medical Center|Rush University Medical Center|Rush University Medical Center
financial literacy refers ability access utilize financial information ways promote better outcomes old age financial literacy associated wide range positive characteristics however neural correlates remain unclear recent work suggested greater coactivity anteriorposterior medial brain regions associated better brain functioning hypothesized financial literacy would associated pattern assessed wholebrain functional connectivity posterior cingulate cortex pcc seed region interest roi 138 participants rush memory aging project results revealed financial literacy associated greater functional connectivity pcc three regions right ventromedial prefrontal cortex vmpfc left postcentral gyrus right precuneus results also revealed financial literacy associated negatively functional connectivity pcc left caudate post hoc analyses showed pccvmpfc relationship accounted variance regression model adjusted four significant functional connectivity relationships demographic factors global cognition findings provide information neural mechanisms associated financial literacy old age