From The Quarterly, Winter 2012 Cognitive abilities tend to decline with age. Although there is considerable variability in degree from one person to another, a large percentage of the very old develop dementia. By contrast, depression is not a normal part of aging, but many of the problems of aging—bereavement, illness, social isolation—can be risk factors for depression and affect cognitive abilities.
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From The Quarterly, Summer 2011 You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to know that certain of our mental faculties decline as we age. Memory is one instance or, in many people, the ability to concentrate. A NARSAD Distinguished Investigator at Yale University and her team have recently performed experiments demonstrating that age-related cognitive decline ─ as this diminution of mental capacity is called ─ is likely reversible, at least in part. Team leader Amy F. T. Arnsten, PhD, is a neurobiologist who has devoted her career to studying a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, or PFC, the most evolved brain area in primates, including humans.
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In 2000, Foundation Distinguished Investigator Grantees, Paul Greengard, Ph.D., and Eric R. Kandel, M.D., were awarded the Nobel Prize in...
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