While simple falls, such as slipping while walking off a curb, may seem relatively harmless, they can actually lead to severe injury and death in elderly individuals, according to a new study published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, an…
Elderly adults who perform as well as younger adults on certain cognitive tests appear to enlist the otherwise underused left half of the prefrontal cortex of their brain in order to maintain performance, neuroscientists have found. In contrast, elderly people who are not “high performers” on the tests resemble younger adults in showing a preferred usage of the right side of the prefrontal cortex.