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by Rick Tllez BRAIN DECLINE BEGINS AT AGE 27! Or says astudyfrom the University of Virginia. The seven years study, headed by Timothy Salthouse, indicates adults achieve their peak mental performance around 22 and mental decline starts as soon as age 27. Most of us believe it is inevitable one day or another our mental abilities are going to shift into reverse. The University of Virginia study seems to confirm thatwe becomeslower, less attentive, and more rigid. Unfortunately, this process starts before age 30! But heres the good news: in the 21st century we have the tools to avoid brain decline. Not only can we stop brain decline, we can even reverse if we know how and if we are willingto make the effort! THE PROBLEM OF AGING Brain performance decreases with age in several cognitive skills: Attention decreases.The result is that we have difficulties concentrating on a single thing. It may happen that we are reading a book and after a while, we have to move back and re-read it because we did not pay attention to what we were reading along the last minute. Our ability to analyze at the same time different pieces of information decreases, this means, ourworking memoryperformance is lower, and it is more difficult for us to hold in the mind different information at the same time. Decline in the short-term memorymakes us more forgetful.We forget things that we did not forget before, things like where did we put the keys, what is the name of a known person or where did we park the car. Processing speed decreases.It takes us longer to understand things and to make decisions. As a consequence, many people feel reticent to learn new things because they find it more difficult. They would rather rely on what they already know. But avoiding to learn new thingsaccelerates brain decline. An interesting paradox: brain decline promotes brain decline! WHY DECLINE HAPPENS There are many reasons why brain performance decreases with age, including nutrition and genes, but the most basic reason is simply we do not challenge ourselves. Around peak performance age many of us have already constructed most of our mental automatic systems, those are, structures of thinking that allow us to easily move in the world. You can call them habits. From that age on,we rely on habits for doing almost everything. We feel comfortable using them because we know how they work and what the expected results will be. Hence, we repeat them once and again to solve the same things. Once we have built our set of habits, we have created ourpersonalcomfort zone. The comfort zone is that psychological place were we feel safe and that we control the situation. We know what to do if something happens. We know how to solve the problems that lie within the zone. It is our zone of (mental) relax. Everything we do in life is related to the creation of our comfort zone. Above everything, we want to be comfortable. Until we achieve this, we work hard and challenge ourselves. Once achieved, we decide to stay within it, making challenge and effort disappear from our lives. Moving only within our comfort zone has two side effects in the brain: One, it strengthens the brain connections of the habits we repeat. This means thatthe more we do the same thing, the more we are condemned to do it again.So we stay within our comfort zone. We avoid using and training of our other abilities that lie outside that zone. Two, the capacity of the brain to create new neurons and connections (called neurogenesis) decreasesbecause we dont use it to learn new things. Again, the effect is that it will beeven more difficultfor us to create new connections, that is, learn new things. At this point, moving away from that comfort zone is very difficult because we have a limited...

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