Physiological Explanations for Changes in the Brain with Age.
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Physiological Explanations for Changes in the Brain with Age
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Types of Changes
• Large scale anatomical changes
• Changes at the level of the neuron
• Plasticity in the aging nervous system
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Functional MRI
• Detects changes in blood flow to active areas of brain
• Different ages = differences in task-related activity in a given brain region?
• Inconclusive results
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Changes in Cerebral Cortex
• Frontal lobe: planning/decision making
• Hippocampus: involved in memory
• Some 60 to 90 year olds, no appreciable neuronal loss
• Multiple influences: mental activity and aerobic activity
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Other Structural Changes
• Subcortical basal forebrain: lower brain centers that support more advanced brain structures involved in higher-order cognitive functions
• Growth factor gene therapy
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Sex Differences in Age-Related Changes in the Brain
• Male: more pronounced brain atrophy with age
• Males: left hemisphere
• Female: less brain atrophy
• Female: symmetrical changes
• Role of estrogen in brain health
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Influences on Neurological Changes
• Psychological, social and environmental
• Circulatory system
• Blood-brain barrier
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Changes in and Between Neurons
• Parts of a Neuron– Dendrites - branch-like structures
that receive messages from other neurons.
– Axon - long tube-like structure that carries the neural message to other cells.
– Synapse- site of communication between neurons
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Neuron communication
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Changes In and Between Neurons
• Some cell death does occur
• Larger neurons most susceptible
• Redundancy
• Compensatory mechanisms
Sprouting
Environmental enrichment/deprivation
Aerobic fitness/diet
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Plasticity
• Prenatal development-mitosis
• Neurogenesis
• Dynamic nervous system