Sentences with phrase «super agers»

Barrett does think researching super agers will yield specific recommendations at some point, but she cautions that for now she can only make «reasoned speculation.»

Barrett and her colleagues hope to learn even more from super agers as they continue to study them.

When the researchers looked specifically at parts of the brain associated with learning and remembering new information, they found that they were larger in the super agers than in other older adults.

For a subgroup of elderly adults called «super agers,» key brain regions resemble those of much younger people, according to a new study.

Therefore, Barrett says, a willingness to take on tasks that require sustained effort — such as learning a new language — may be a trait that super agers share.

One 2015 study reported that brains of super agers are thicker in certain areas than normal brains, and also have fewer tangles (a type of protein associated with Alzheimer's disease), and a large supply of neurons linked to social intelligence.

Super agers have been described in previous studies as adults 80 and up with memories as sharp as those of middle - aged people.

And although these areas tend to shrink with age, they were as thick in the super agers, in some cases, as they were in the young adults.

From cancer and stroke survivors to super agers in Sardinian villages and your average modern day citizen, wherever scientists look they seem to find huge benefits from actually looking another person in the eyes, Pinker reports.