{"id":889,"date":"2023-02-07T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=889"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:23:31","slug":"defying-dementia-it-is-not-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Defying dementia: It is not inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DEMENTIA isn\u2019t inevitable. The human brain can stay sharp well past 100 years of life. Yes, getting older slows us down: parts of the brain associated with memory and executive function shrink, myelin sheaths around our neurons start to erode, slowing down signalling, and arteries narrow diminishing blood supply. But those things mainly affect speed: when healthy older people are given extra time to perform cognitive tasks, the results are on par with younger folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431230-400-defying-dementia-it-is-not-inevitable\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431230-400-defying-dementia-it-is-not-inevitable\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMENTIA isn\u2019t inevitable. The human brain can stay sharp well past 100 years of life. Yes, getting older slows us down: parts of the brain associated with memory and executive function shrink, myelin sheaths around our neurons start to erode, slowing down signalling, and arteries narrow diminishing blood supply. But those things mainly affect speed: when healthy older people are given extra time to perform cognitive tasks, the results are on par with younger folks. Original article: https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431230-400-defying-dementia-it-is-not-inevitable\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}