Monday, April 5, 2010

7 ways the mind and body change with age

Research is finding new details on our attitudes and appearances as we grow old.

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The poster child of aging seems to be a wrinkly-faced, forgetful, grumpy old man. But science is painting another, more in-depth picture of aging Americans. The elderly tend to become more happy, liberal and in many cases remain pretty darn sharp. Here are 7 ways we change as we get older.”

OKAY…so when we get older this is one thing we can expect (and even dread):

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“As a person gets older, their ability to ignore distractions gets worse, according to Karen Campbell, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of Toronto.”

BUT WAIT! There’s some good news:

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But Campbell and her colleagues found a silver lining that might focus you: Seniors might have the unique ability to "hyper-bind" the irrelevant information, tying it to other information appearing at the same time. The ability could ultimately boost memory.”

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2 comments:

Tom Holloway said...

There are several aspectes of this column that I definitly agree with. Humor is very important. I find that the older I get the more I laugh at life.
The part about sagging I also agee with, along with the stem cells. Being in my 60's now I can definitly attest to the fact that my stem sags more now than ever before!
Damn it!!

Tom Holloway said...

Please disregard theerrors in the above text. There is no spell check.

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