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Article: Old and young brains rely on different systems to remember emotional content.
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- NewsRx Health & Science
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- January 4, 2009
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Neuroscientists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered that older people use their brains differently than younger people when it comes to storing memories, particularly those associated with negative emotions.
The study, appearing online in the January issue of Psychological Science, is a novel look at how brain connections change with age.
Older adults, average age 70, and younger adults, average age 24, were shown a series of 30 photographs while their brains were imaged in a functional MRI (fMRI) machine. Some of the photos were neutral in nature and others had strong negative content such as attacking snakes, mutilated bodies and ...