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Esther Kuehn, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen

Part of your brain gets bigger as you get older – here is what that means for you

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I recently asked myself if I’ll still have a healthy brain as I get older. I hold a professorship at a neurology department. Nevertheless, it is difficult for me to judge if a particular brain, including my own, suffers from early neurodegeneration.

My new study, however, shows that part of your brain increases in size with age rather than degenerating.

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