White matter, which connects different regions of the brain, appears to retain better structure in superagers than in older people with memory decline.
People who still have very sharp memory into old age—known as 'superagers'—may get their impressive powers from certain areas of the brain being preserved.Brain structures known as white matter usually decline in integrity with age, but in superagers, white matter remains structurally sound, according to a new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience.This may be the reason for superagers having the memory powers of people 30 years their junior, the researchers suggest.
In the paper researchers from Spain's Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre studied the brain structure of older adults experiencing memory loss and those of superagers across a five-year period.They discovered that superagers had better white matter microstructure than older people with declining memory.
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