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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The Next Big Thing: Neuroplastics
You remember the line in The Graduate, when a friend of Dustin Hoffman's parents pulled him aside and revealed the next big thing: "Plastics."Well, the next big thing today may be "Neuroplastics." This is the field of medicine that explores the ability of the brain to improve itself through activity or mental exercise.
"The idea that the brain can change its own structure and function through thought and activity is, I believe, the most important alteration in our view of the brain since we first sketched out its anatomy and the workings of its basic component, the neuron," writes Dr. Norman Doidge in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
In Retirement, Boomers Stay Active
Older Americans are generally happy and more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior. That's the key finding of a massive study done over 26 years by University of Chicago sociologist Yang Yang.The study, based on periodic face-to-face interviews with 28,000 people from 1972 to 2004, found that older Americans have learned to be more content with what they have than younger adults, Yang said. His study was published in the April issue of American Sociological Review.
However, get ready for the next group of people about to become "older Americans:" the baby boomers. According to the study, baby boomers are the least happy.
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