How the human brain stays healthy as it ages, according to ckbergland
For this study, Jiang and colleagues compared a cohort of 57 dementia-free participants who were all older than 95 with over five dozen cognitively unimpaired younger participants between 76 and 79 years old:"[Our] findings suggest that, compared to young-old controls, centenarians showed more synchronized activation of left and right frontoparietal control networks," Jiang said in a news release.
"This paper is a fine example of how the study of centenarians can reveal the secrets of healthy aging, and how the brain adapts to age-related changes and continues to perform so well in these exceptional individuals," co-authorAlthough this recent UNSW study doesn't offer prescriptive advice on how to optimize the functional connectivity between brain hemispheres as we age, previous research...
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