Attention: Why do SuperAgers Maintain Memory and a Thick Cortex?

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | September 20, 2012

Are brain aging and cog­ni­tive decline ineluctable? Maybe not. Grow­ing research is help­ing iden­ti­fy “Super­Agers” whose brains at 80+ appear as young as the brains of peo­ple in their 50s. What the lat­est Super­Agers study found In a recent paper, researchers defined Super­Agers as peo­ple over 80 whose mem­o­ry per­for­mance was at least as good as aver­age 50- to…

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