Rejuvenation Research
 2019
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2018.2167
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Evidence That Jeanne Calment Died in 1934—Not 1997

Nikolay Zak1

Abstract: I present a body of data that, I argue, cumulatively casts serious doubt on the validity of Jeanne Calment's accepted world record of human life span. First, I assess the plausibility of the record based on the life spans of other centenarians in the International Database of Longevity (IDL) and critique some arguments put forward previously in support of that plausibility, including the longevity of Calment's ancestors. Second, I review the literature dedicated to Calment and discuss multiple contradictions i… Show more

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“…Her validation has been disputed by Valery Novoselov, Nikolay Zak, and others. We reaffirm here that we continue to dispute her case due to an ambiguity in her record which could allow for a mother-daughter identity switch [37,38]. Her original validators have demanded that their opponents provide proof of the switch [50].…”
Section: Validation Reviewsmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…Doubts about his longevity were raised well before his death [33]. Some of these doubts were similar to rumours about Jeanne Calment [37,38].…”
Section: Antonia Damentioning
confidence: 92%
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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Her validation has been disputed by Valery Novoselov, Nikolay Zak, and others. We reaffirm here that we continue to dispute her case due to an ambiguity in her record which could allow for a mother-daughter identity switch [37,38]. Her original validators have demanded that their opponents provide proof of the switch [50].…”
Section: Validation Reviewsmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…Doubts about his longevity were raised well before his death [33]. Some of these doubts were similar to rumours about Jeanne Calment [37,38].…”
Section: Antonia Damentioning
confidence: 92%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Nikolay Zak published in 2019 what he considered to be such a solid scenario. 27 This gave a high visibility on this hypothesis and a positive consequence is that it motivated other people such as us to investigate further. The proposed scenario was certainly an attractive scenario from a Romanesque point of view, such as would be also a substitution by a Martian, however, when analyzed in details this interesting scenario appears to be not solid, not supported by any real facts, but rather illusions such as a nonexisting ''fibroma.''…”
Section: Positive Facts About Jcmentioning
confidence: 89%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…In addition, in a small number of cases, people may still be incorrectly validated because they assumed the identity of a close relative, such as a parent or older sibling. We have published inambiguous evidence that this is the case for Jeanne Calment, the oldest validated person [3,4,5,6]. Such errors can lead to overcounting of supercentenarians.…”
Section: Counting Supercentenariansmentioning
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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