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Healthy Brain Aging
Arch Neurol. 2002;59:1721-1723.
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health (helth) n. [ME helthe < OE haelo.] 1. The overall condition of an organism at a given time <in excellent health> 2. Soundness esp. of body or mind. 3. A condition of optimal well-being <economic health> 4. A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.—Webster's II: New Riverside University Dictionary1
JUST AS BEAUTY is in the eye of the beholder, so is a good-looking brain, or at least a brain that serves its user well. One's perspective here is key. Ask a group of 85-year-old persons living freely in the community how they perceive their health, and 45% rate their "health" as good-to-excellent, while objective measures of physical and psychological abilities (eg, vision, hearing, motor function, cognitive function) and social function shows them to be considerably more disabled, with only about 10% in an optimal state of functioning.2 In the medical community, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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