Wisdom or senility.
The article discusses factors in brain aging. Generally, from the age of 20, a decline in a person's raw mental agility is apparent. As the brain grows older, it undergoes complex changes--from the biochemical, to the molecular, structural and functional--that lead it to shrink. This shrinkage, thou...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 378; no. 8465; p. 66 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
2/18/2006
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