MATURITY – FINDING BALANCE AS THE BRAIN AGES

YOUNG & OLD / MENTAL FITNESS

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

YOUNG & OLD Brain scans reveal the different ways young and old brains process information. When young and old test subjects look at pictures, the young brains experience most activity in the right hemisphere, in a region known as the right visual cortex. Older brains activate the visual cortices of the right and left hemispheres…

CHANGES IN PERFORMANCE

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD January 8, 2023January 8, 2023

CHANGES IN PERFORMANCE Nevertheless, some decline in brain function is inevitable as we age. The first system to show its age is memory. Brains begin requiring more time to learn and store information in late middle age. At the same time, the prefrontal cortex experiences a drop in its ability to hold information in so…

A MATURE VISION / THE AGING BRAIN

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD January 7, 2023January 7, 2023

A MATURE VISION SHE WAS BORN on a New York farm before the Civil War, when high technology meant steam railroad engines and telegraph lines. By the time of her death, America had sent rockets into space. In between those events, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses learned to adapt, not only with the changing times…

EMOTIONAL CONTROL

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

EMOTIONAL CONTROL Further research indicated a difference between adults and children in their ability to lessen emotional responses. Mario Beauregard of the University of Montreal demonstrated the importance of age in emotional control with a two-part experiment. In the first part, he performed fMRIs on women between ages twenty and thirty, and on girls between…

EMOTIONAL APPRAISALS [ MATURITY ]

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

EMOTIONAL APPRAISALS [ MATURITY ] The mature brain has the ability not only to register emotions but also to reappraise them before taking action. Adults, unlike children and adolescents, can mentally detach themselves from the emotions they experience, label them, and place them in context-in short, realize what they feel, why they feel it, and…

MATURITY – FINDING BALANCE AS THE BRAIN AGES [ REGISTERING EMOTIONS ]

ByTeam HUMANITYUAPD January 1, 2023January 1, 2023

MATURITY – FINDING BALANCE AS THE BRAIN AGES AFTER ADOLESCENCE, the brain transitions into adulthood. A fully functioning prefrontal cortex is the highest expression of the human brain. The balance of reason and emotion marks the emergence of the adult brain. Only in functional adulthood does society expect a person to have the ability to…