Aging
George Mason University publishes research in aging
Published in Telemedicine Business Week, January 2nd, 2008
"The functional plasticity of aging hypothesis argues that losses in brain integrity drive functional reorganization through both inherent plasticity and changes in processing strategy. These processes can affect the course of cognitive aging. The reviewers (C. L. Grady, 2007; N. Raz, 2007; T. A. Salthouse, 2007) appear to agree that this is a defensible and testable explanation for the paradox that brain regions undergoing the greatest shrinkage in old age are the very regions showing heightened task-related neuroimaging activation in old age," scientists in the United States report.
"The author notes that whether she has advanced a framework or a hypothesis...
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