OLD BRAINS
Added on: 20th Feb 2015
BRAINS OF OLDER PEOPLE ARE SLOW
BECAUSE THEY KNOW SO MUCH ...
PEOPLE DO NOT DECLINE MENTALLY WITH AGE,
IT JUST TAKES THEM LONGER TO RECALL FACTS
BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE INFORMATION IN
THEIR BRAINS, SCIENTISTS BELIEVE .
MUCH LIKE A COMPUTER STRUGGLES AS THE HARD DRIVE
GETS FULL UP, SO TO DO HUMANS TAKE LONGER TO
ACCESS INFORMATION, IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED .
RESEARCHERS SAY THIS SLOWING DOWN IS
NOT THE SAME AS COGNITIVE DECLINE .
THE HUMAN BRAIN WORKS SLOWER IN OLD AGE,
SAID DR. MICHAEL RAMSCAR, BUT ONLY
BECAUSE WE HAVE STORED MORE INFORMATION
OVER TIME THE BRAINS OF OLDER PEOPLE DO NOT
GET WEAK. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY SIMPLY KNOW MORE .
ALSO, OLDER PEOPLE OFTEN GO TO ANOTHER ROOM
TO GET SOMETHING AND WHEN THEY GET THERE,
THEY STAND THERE WONDERING WHAT THEY CAME FOR.
IT IS NOT A MEMORY PROBLEM,
IT IS NATURE'S WAY OF MAKING OLDER PEOPLE
DO MORE EXERCISE .
SO THERE!!
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