aging brain
Memory loses sharpness
The aging brain is the human brain as it changes with advancing years—typically showing gradual decline in processing speed, memory formation, and cognitive flexibility.
The term appears in medical and popular contexts discussing mental sharpness in older adults: Exercise may protect the aging brain.
Research on the aging brain spans normal decline and pathological conditions like dementia.
- lifelong learningOngoing self-improvement through study
- use it or lose itMaintain through practice or decline
- memory lossFailure to recall
- senior momentBrief memory lapse
- short-term memoryFleeting cognitive storage
long-term memory · geriatrics · golden years · neuroplasticity · white matter · neurodegeneration · inflammation · cognitive reserve · Alzheimer's disease · vascular dementia · mild cognitive impairment · sundowning · amygdala · language impairment · executive dysfunction · Parkinson's disease · synapses · dementia
- agingbiological age, old age, biological clock, senescence, geriatrics
- neuroscienceneuron, MRI, neurons, synapses, dendrite
- aging psychologylife review, late adulthood, life span, cognitive decline, memory decline
- cognitive agingcognitive decline, memory decline, memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer's
- dementiamemory loss, Alzheimer's, forgetfulness, cognitive decline, memory impairment
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering