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HTTP:: Healthy Brains Don 039 t Shrink When Old
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Many experts believe that the average human brain starts shrinking with old age, and that the trend continues until death. But a new study comes to disagree with them, stating that, in healthy individuals, no such regression can be found, regardless of age. The same paper hints at the fact that the diminishing of the brain starts only when the cognitive abilities of that specific person begin to deteriorate, LiveScience reports. Details of the new investigation are published in the September issue of the respected scientific journal Neuropsychology. “The main issue is that maybe healthy people do not have as much atrophy as we always thought they had,” Maastricht University PhD candidate Saartje Burgmans, also the lead author of the new study, explains. The scientist believes that one of the main reasons why previous studies overestimated the amount by which the old brain started shrinking was because the researchers who conducted them failed to exclude people who wer!
e already beginning to develop conditions such as dementia, or other related illnesses. If they had been separated from the healthy participants, the conclusions of the new research would have been reached a long time ago. “What we found is that when you exclude all those people [who] are suspicious for preclinical disease, an...
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