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The brain cell debate rages on with this just in from Research Gate:
Our brains keep making new neurons throughout our lifespan, a quality unique to humans.
A newly released study0 is the first to show that healthy older people continue to produce new brain cells. Researchers autopsied 28 healthy brains donated by people who had no neuropsychiatric disease or treatment affecting the brain.
Here we assessed whole autopsy hippocampi from healthy human individuals ranging from 14 to 79 years of age. We found similar numbers of intermediate neural progenitors and thousands of immature neurons in the DG, comparable numbers of glia and mature granule neurons, and equivalent DG volume across ages.
But, does it really matter if you still can't teach the old dogs new tricks?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by black6host on Friday April 06 2018, @05:44PM (2 children)
I'm in the same boat as you are with respect to current technology. However, I don't think it has to do with how many brain cells I have that are functioning but rather I just don't give a damn anymore :) Seriously. I've spent so many years working on that stuff that the last thing I want to screw with is more technology. I've simply had enough.
Now that I'm no longer obsessed with that stuff I can obsess over playing my guitar :)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday April 06 2018, @06:51PM
When I was young, I could remember my credit card numbers, calling card number, drivers license number, etc.
I can still remember my drivers license number, but the CC numbers change too much. It's not that I couldn't remember 4 unique CC numbers, the problem is that they change so frequently that the older numbers get mixed up with the new ones in my memory.
It's the same with new tech - it changes faster than I use it, so, instead of remembering how to use it (like I did with the old push-button LED watches), I now remember how to look up how to use it. Or ignore it because it's a PITA, that's an increasingly attractive option, too.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by turgid on Saturday April 07 2018, @12:35PM
It's particularly frustrating when this "great new stuff" comes along, and it turns out you've seen it all before, seen all the design problems before and lived will all the same bugs before.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].