Neuron (brain cell)  source: depositphotos.com

I  am 83 years old – or 83.3 to be exact, 111 days into my next birthday. Hence the subject of aging brains is a very personal one.

New York Times writer Dana G. Smith reports on a new paper published in Nature * detailing research on the brains of ‘super agers’ – people 80 and over whose brains remain “almost perfectly intact, their thinking as sharp at 80 as it was in their 50s!”.  (No – I am an ‘ager’, not a super-ager).

Disouky, A., Sanborn, M.A., Sabitha, K.R. et al. Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature (2026).........

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