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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Secret of what makes ‘super-agers’ resilient to dementia may finally be revealed

People who live into their 80s and 90s with good memory tend to grow more new brain cells than their peers, a new study reveals.

These “super-agers” possess more fertile brains compared to peers with Alzheimer’s disease that witness negligible new nerve cell growth in later years, researchers from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago say.

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