Scientists hope their research will help us understand conditions like dementia.
Our thinking skills in childhood could offer a glimpse into how our minds might work at the age of 70, according to a study spanning decades.were born in the U.K. in the same week, took tests to measure their thinking and memory skills. The participants took cognitive tests again between the ages of 69 and 71.amyloidBig Waist and High BMI Associated With Brain Thinning Linked to Dementiashows those with the highest test scores in childhood were more likely to have high scores later in life.
Participants who had a white-collar job were able to remember, on average, 12 details from a short story, versus 11 if they had a manual job. Overall, women did better than men when their memory and thinking speed were tested.-beta plaques in their brains, meanwhile, scored lower on cognitive tests. In one assessment where participants had to find the missing pieces in five geometric shapes, those with the plaque got 23 out of 32 problems correct, versus 25 for those without the plaques.
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