They Need Anti-Aging Creams for the Brain
March 15th, 2009 by Soleil
Old age begins (in the brain) at the ripe old age of 27.
According to scientists, our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.
The researchers studied 2,000 men and women aged 18 to 60 over seven years. The people involved – who were mostly in good health and well-educated – had to solve visual puzzles, recall words and story details and spot patterns in letters and symbols.
At age 27 scientists saw a significant decline in responses to tests on reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation.
This is just awesome. Two weeks before my birthday I find out that I not only have to worry about wrinkles and shit, now I also have to fret over my impending mental decline.
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Isn’t this probably because, by then, most people have been out of school for a good amount of time. So, they are that used to having to take tests and think outside the box, etc
Hey, join the club!
Actually, as far as hormones go, it’s all downhill from 25.
Is it possible to post anything more depressing?
Actually it is said your reasoning doesn’t mature until twenty-one.
t an age when Americans are first considered adults, their brains are still maturing, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Dartmouth College scanned the brains of nineteen 18-year-old students who had moved more than 100 miles to attend school.
“During the first year of college, students have many new experiences,” said psychologist Abigail Baird, the study’s principal investigator. “They are faced with new cognitive, social, and emotional challenges.”
A group of 17 older students, ranging in age from 25 to 35, served as a control group for comparison. The results showed that the freshmen students’ brains underwent significant changes and were very different from that of the older adults.
The changes were localized to the cingulate, caudate and insula regions of the brain. These areas are believed to be where emotions and thoughts are integrated.
The researchers believe the changes represent an increased awareness of the students’ inner feelings and an improved ability to organize and integrate incoming sensory information; this synthesis helps shape the kinds of emotional and behavioral responses they have to new experiences.
The results are consistent with other research suggesting that the human brain continues to grow and mature right up to the point when we become adults and even beyond. In another study, researchers found that humans don’t really develop the ability to handle multiple pieces of information at once until about the ages of 16 or 17.
“The brain of an 18-year-old college freshman is still far from resembling the brain of someone in their mid-twenties,” said Craig Bennett, a graduate student who was involved in the new research. “When do we reach adulthood? It might be much later than we traditionally think.”
The study will be detailed in an upcoming print issue of the journal Human Brain Mapping.
http://www.livescience.com/health/060206_brain_mature.html
yeah, well this is according to the daily mail, so I don’t know how seriously to take it. Also, 22 is the “normal” college graduation age. It would make sense for this to appear like a peak.
Great… just the thing I wanted to read right before my 27th birthday.
Hahah learned about this just a few weeks ago in psychology…
Oh god no, I’m 27 and feel dumber! I KNEW IT WASN’T IMAGINING IT!
I just turned 27 on March 1st. *sigh*
OHHHHH NOOO! I just turned 27 last week! :( I already feel old! haha. Damn.
Thanks a lot Sasha – it is less than one week away from my 27th!!!
Soleil, we can be old brained together–I turn 27 in a month =(