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  • from Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers by Jeanne Dorin McDowell

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  • from Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers by Jeanne Dorin McDowell

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  • Cognitive reserve. It’s not that their brains don’t age; it’s that super agers seem to be able to overcome the wear and tear that cognitively average people succumb to: age-related issues like inflammation or clogged blood vessels. In fact, postmortem studies of the brains of super agers reveal that some had the clinical pathology of Alzheimer’s b
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from Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers by Jeanne Dorin McDowell

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  • from Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers by Jeanne Dorin McDowell

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  • The SuperAging Research team identified a potential “brain signature” for super agers: They found that the anterior cingulate cortex, which impacts thinking, memory and decision-making, is thicker in super agers — sometimes thicker even than it is in most people in their 50s and 60s. In fact, in some super agers, the brain regions linked to memory
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