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Are we over the hill at 24? Study finds cognitive decline begins far earlier than thought
Daily Mail ^ | 14 April 2014 | MARK PRIGG

Posted on 04/14/2014 5:24:43 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Our brains start to slow down once we hit 24, researchers have discovered.

They analysed thousands of played of the hugely popular Starcraft 2 computer game, and saw a universal slowdown far earlier than they expected.

They claim that as soon as players hit the ripe old age of 25, they have already reached their peak in terms of cognitive motor performance.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; free from tyranny

RENEW!!


21 posted on 04/14/2014 6:05:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: MinorityRepublican

The headline talks about Cognitive Decline but the story is about cognitive motor performance which is really about the way the brain and body function together. Being young is not better or smarter - I am far more able to understand new things and think them through than I ever was at 25 - Admittedly I was a pretty stupid 25 year old, run of the mill, believe what everyone else does, lefty!

Mel


22 posted on 04/14/2014 6:07:08 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

24? Huh. My decline started at 18 and was pretty much done at 22 when I finished college.

I wish someone would do a “study” to determine the cause of mental illness in liberals.


23 posted on 04/14/2014 6:08:41 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: melsec
I'd say most innovative from 25 to 35.

Most cowboy - "hold my beer" alert from 15 to 25.

Wisdom starts at 35 and continues until mental arterial sclerosis at some age from 35 to 80, depending on the individual.

24 posted on 04/14/2014 6:12:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: The Right wing Infidel

“they had a news article that claimed drinking semen cures depression and once claimed that soya sauce could cure cancer”

I’m quite certain the prior article was written by a guy who needed to justify something to someone.


25 posted on 04/14/2014 6:29:26 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Isaac Newton published his magnus opus — Principia Mathematica when he was in his mid 40’s.

Many of Bach’s greatest musical works were composed in his 40’s and 50’s. Bach assembled his last large work, the Mass in B minor, near the end of his life, when he was in his 60’s.

William Harvey published his famous work done a decade prior” “On the Motion of the Heart and Blood” at nearly age 50.


26 posted on 04/14/2014 6:34:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: Paladin2

I hope to continue attaining wisdom - I have a lot of time to make up for! :)


27 posted on 04/14/2014 6:37:06 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: tbw2

Cures depression? Can’t be true, Barry looks depressed all of the time....


28 posted on 04/14/2014 6:48:55 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Ingtar

I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.


29 posted on 04/14/2014 7:10:13 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: MinorityRepublican
They claim that as soon as players hit the ripe old age of 25, they have already reached their peak in terms of cognitive motor performance.

That's because years of playing Starcraft turns their brains into jello at an early age.

30 posted on 04/14/2014 7:33:40 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ingtar

I don’t have the same set of skills that I had when I was younger, but I am comfortable with different skills that developed since then, that the 24-year old version of me could not have even imagined.

I find this analogous to the skillset of a baseball pitcher - with the exception of Nolan Ryan, you lose the flame-thowing capabilities of youth, starting in your late 20’s (or earlier). If you want to stay in the game, you have to develop other skills like situational awareness and knowing your opponents and their weaknesses.


31 posted on 04/14/2014 8:10:45 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: SeekAndFind

“Isaac Newton published his magnus opus — Principia Mathematica when he was in his mid 40’s.”

There are always outliers. And, I have read that he had WRITTEN it considerably earlier. There was generally a lot of time between writing something and having it widely distributed then, as I recall :).

However, many contemporaries were on his trail (Liebnitz, for example). IMO, “Opticks” took even more imagination and is _still_ the bedrock template for scientific discovery. What he did, and documented, was incredible leap of process and knowledge.


32 posted on 04/14/2014 8:23:16 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: ottbmare

“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”

I though that this was a fairly amusing comment, at first. Then, I thought about it. Not funny. Next life, I want to be very handsome and completely stupid.


33 posted on 04/14/2014 8:25:07 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

Bob Seger, “Against the Wind.”


34 posted on 04/14/2014 8:41:35 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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