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• Key Mental Abilities Can Actually Improve During Aging

  WASHINGTON (August 19, 2021) — It’s long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now, new research from Georgetown University Medical Center offers surprisingly good news by countering this view. The findings, published August 19, 2021, in Nature Human Behavior, show that two key brain functions, which allow us […]

  Category: News Release Tags: aging, Alzheimer's disease, brain, executive function, mind, neuroscience