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Like stress, aging gets richly deserved bad press. Mother Nature forces us into a game where she makes up the rules as we progress toward various reversals of mental and physical fortune, and then, occasionally even before our “best-by” date, we reach our expiration. Indeed, growing old is not for sissies. Younger readers will please note that because some age-related mental slowing begins shortly after the brain’s prefrontal lobes become fully developed, smugness about brain aging is not appropriate for those approaching (or passing) 40.
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Dienstbier, R.A. (2015). The Aging Brain: Not for Sissies. In: Building Resistance to Stress and Aging. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454850_8
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