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It is the mental deterioration of age? - Part 6

Probably not. What is the body deteriorate. Arteries become clogged as fat builds up inside the walls, and once it has been fifty years, up to 50% of people suffering from reduced blood flow, oxygen is supplied to the brain. When these arteries are cleaned, the patients showed a significant reduction of nervousness, mental anguish and a significant increase in IQ addition, older patients benefit from a specific oxygen treatment can often be a significant improvement in mental capacity .

It should be noted that high blood pressure is correlated with the loss of intellectual capacity and, when high blood pressure and reduces blood pressure by relaxation exercises or diet, for example, increases brain activity.

Mental activity involves complex physico-chemical activity. Indeed, Dr. David Samuels of the Weizmann Institute estimates that there may be up to one million chemical reactions that occur in the brain than a minute! But there is no evidence that these chemical reactions become less frequent with age, even the production of RNA, a key chemical involved in complex memory actually increases as with age.

The impression that the memory of the elders of the latest developments is poorer than for other events is perhaps because there is usually less to remember events as we age. New experiences are more common in younger years. And the novelty of the note.

Use it - or lose

Although it is not the main reason - and certainly do not need - and there is to reduce the spiritual forces of aging, it is certainly a decisive factor for the provision of continuous stimuli improves mental ability. Mark Rosenzweig UCLA to do the experiment in three rats.

Group 1 lived in a cage full of wheels, ladders, toys, mazes, etc.

Group 2 lived in a poor environment, without any stimulation.

Group 3 saw an environment rich in a cage next door, but could not get in

After a review of the three groups showed that rats in Group 1 that directly interact with a difficult environment, everyone had a cerebral cortex heavier and thicker, while neither the observer or the environment rats deprived rats showed an increase in brain size. The conclusion is that it is necessary to be involved in the mental exercise, to experiment directly with new ideas. Many prominent intellectuals who have lived into old age, confirms this truth. Tennyson, Wordsworth, Bernard Shaw, Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Haydn, Bach, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, were all doing the work of outstanding quality during the latter part of their lives. We have already seen how a good oxygen supply is important and regular breaks of mental work and during exercise is important. The Greeks instinctively understood. Their senators regularly surveyed on their forum during the discussions.

Nature or nurture?


How the brain develops in fact allows us to have the question of whether intelligence is a function of heredity (nature) or environment (nutrition). The answer is "both." The number of brain

cells is a factor, but how these brain cells are stimulated to make rich connections is much larger. Therefore, it is probably fair to say that almost all normal children born a potential genius. Even if innate intelligence is simply average, a rich intellectual environment during the period of increased brain growth on the other side, with many opportunities to learn, can guarantee the development of a greater proportion of the potential of the brain that normally expected .

Anecdotal evidence of this in humans (as well as clinical signs in rats!) Is overwhelming. Genius is born in 1800 that the father of Karl Witte, a German doctor, decided to give your child a rich educational environment. Charles entered the University of Leipzig to nine, and received his doctorate at age fourteen! Lord Kelvin's mother made the same decision. His son became one of the most successful physical nineteenth century. More recently, the good publicity "Edith's experience," Aaron Stern determined New York in 1952 to give your child the best environment I could conceive. Classical music is a continuous background. He spoke in terms of adults and has shown its cards in the reading of the figures and animals in them. Edith Stern could hardly speak for the simple, and had read an entire volume of the Encyclopedia Brittannica at the age of five years. She was reading six books a day for six years. At twelve, he enrolled in college and taught higher mathematics at the University of Michigan to fifteen years.

He results of 200 on a scale where 155 is a genius. England, Ruth Lawrence, who has passed his 'O' level in mathematics and nine "levels of ten (usually 18) was adopted at the University of Oxford for twelve years. He was brought up in an intellectually rich environment with her parents . We will be back in a later chapter by learning pre-school. We're also talking about a well founded fear that the child would be "forced", as an intellectual hot-house plant. It 'clear, it is important that children should be socially well-integrated adults, enjoy his childhood and should not be under pressure. The core is, however, that there is no doubt that a loving environment, rich and relaxed during the critical age certainly does not create a greater intellectual capacity. And it is undeniable advantage.

This advantage is not only related to intellectual performance. The greatest long-term study of traffic capacity has been launched in California by Dr. Terman. Starting in 1925, followed the evolution of 1,000 gifted children (all above 135 IQ). Concluded, therefore: 

* health and physical growth has been higher than normal.
* The price has averaged marriage / divorce rates have been below average. 
* 70% graduated (7 1 / 2 times normal) of the company became a little suspicious of evil genius. Almost as if something very "unfair" to actively promote mental development.

As researchers in this book, we came to believe in the lifelong-. We are totally against the parents satisfy their own ego to push their children succeed. But we are equally unhappy with the mindset that got a Manchester mother when she was told that his son had an IQ of 167, ie ... "But it's so nice boy."

The truth is that you can actually improve the ability of children and his. And it is certainly a challenge we must accept.
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