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.
This image shows how ageing affects the health of most white matter pathways with age, but some more strongly than others. NeuroscienceNews image is adapted from the University of Edinburgh press release.
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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