Sunday, July 31, 2011

Guanfacine: How aging affects working-memory neuron firing rate and how to improve it



July 28, 2011

prefrontal_cortex The neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Yale University researchers have found. “With normal aging, there are impairments in the working memory functions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC),” says Amy F. T. Arnsten, professor or neurobiology at Yale University Medical … more…

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