Summary: Researchers report the brain connections that are key to cognition and complex thinking skills are most effected as we age.
Source: University of Edinburgh.
Original Research: Full open access research for “Ageing and brain white matter structure in 3,513 UK Biobank participants” by Simon R. Cox, Stuart J. Ritchie, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, David C. Liewald, Saskia P. Hagenaars, Gail Davies, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Catharine R. Gale, Mark E. Bastin & Ian J. Deary in Nature Communications. Published online December 15 2016 doi:10.1038/NCOMMS13629
Brain connections that play a key role in complex thinking skills show the poorest health with advancing age, new research suggests.
Connections supporting functions such as movement and hearing are relatively well preserved in later life, the findings show.
Scientists carrying out the most comprehensive study to date on ageing and the brain’s connections charted subtle ways in which the brain’s connections weaken with age./.../
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