In addition, the 25 percent of the participants who had mild cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's also experienced an increase
in brain volume due to the higher amounts of exercise.
Recent studies suggest that the total loss
in brain volume due to atrophy — a wasting away of tissue caused by cell degeneration — between our teen years and old age is 15 percent or more, which means that by the time we're in our seventies, our brains have shrunk to the size they were when we were between 2 and 3 years old.
Not exact matches
The difference
in diet explained 0.5 percent of the variation
in total
brain volume, an effect that was half the size of that
due to normal aging.
The difference
in diet explained 0.5 % of the variation
in total
brain volume, an effect that was half the size of that
due to normal aging.