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Cognitive consequences of age-related increase in brain activity

July 23, 2018 by

Increased frontal brain activity in healthy older adults reflects reduced efficiency rather than a way to maintain cognitive function, finds a study of two human samples. The findings contradict a leading theory in the neuroscience of aging.

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