"Childhood intelligence and cognitive ageing: From genes to healthy behaviour in old age"
Experience in early life contributes to optimum brain development. By age 12-15 years, the brain has a substantial capacity to withstand injury, disease and ageing. By old age, this capacity (hypothesised as "cerebral reserve") is a critical determinant of individual differences in cognitive ageing and progress to dementia. Cognitive ageing and dementia have complex, multifactorial causes. Part of this complexity is attributable to the many influences on “cerebral reserve”.
http://www.uib.es/facultat/psicologia/ageing/abstracts.html
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Very scientific article but what nosuggestions for mainaining current brain function.
Neuroscience is a favorite topic of mine as well. Interesting!
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