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Age and brain faster than men women fall, according to a recent study. A team of scientists found that the gray matter in the brain in men decreases faster than women, as they get older.
Researchers at the University of Szeged scanned the brains of 103 adults (53 men and 50 healthy women of the same age) with an average age of 32. The youngest participant was 21 and the oldest was 58 years old.
Published in the journal Brain Imaging and Behavior, wanted neurologist to determine how the interaction between brain size, age and gender that contribute to changes in the volume of gray matter - brain cortex affects aging man.
Neuroscientists have found that there are many differences in the brain structure of men and women especially in subcortical regions. In general, men lose more gray matter faster than women in the caudate and putamen, the area of the parts of the brain that manage emotions and movements.
Total gray matter in both sexes was determined using voxel-based morphometry. subcortical analysis segmenting based on models, the amount of brain nuclei used to measure subcortical.
Based on their analysis, women have naturally bigger hippocampal volume than men. Other than that, was the volume of gray matter significantly reduces age-related in men compared to women.
In addition, aging affects the thalamus, responsible for the transmission of information in the part of the brain, and in men than in women.
"Surprisingly, the GM - volume decreases faster in men than in women with a focus on the interaction between aging and gender in the structures sub - cortical," the researchers wrote in the study.
"In addition, the volume of distribution and changes in the subcortical structures is they were in various neuropsychiatric disorders always associated with", they added.
The study shows why men are more prone to neurological problems such as disease and hyperactivity disorder attention deficit Parkinson. The study will help understanding of the prognosis and pathophysiology of neurological disorders.
According to the researchers, the study helps to understand the mental disorders associated with aging. to lead with new insights experts, treatment options can be a way to properly treat neurological problems in the elderly.
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