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In thread after thread our forum favorite Gio longs for the 50's. Well, today I saw something that explains it!
Gio, I am old too as are many posters here...please don't take being reminded of your age to hard. And to the rest of you...with luck you too will get old! Older people really do view past through rose-tinted spectacles Scientists have discovered why older people tend to view the past through rose-tinted spectacles. Researchers found that ageing brains allow negative memories to fade leaving pensioners with a distorted impression of how great life was in their younger days. It is believed that as we get older we learn to be less affected by negative information in order to maintain our well being. In contrast, younger adults need to keep an accurate memory of both positive and negative information to help them through their working life. Therefore younger people remember more negative events than their older counterparts. The study also found differences in the way the brains work. Older adults had fewer connections between an area of the brain that generates emotions and a region involved in memory and learning. Instead they have more connections between the area that detects emotion and the area that controls emotions. This may allow the elderly to effectively control which memories they retain and which they do not. The scientists showed a series of 30 photographs to one group of adults with an average age of 70 and another group with an average age of 24. Some of the photos were neutral in nature and others showed strong negative images such as attacking snakes, mutilated bodies and violence. The volunteers were asked to look at the photos while their brains were scanned by an MRI machine - a device that uses a large magnet to take pictures inside the brain. Volunteers completed an unexpected recall task half an hour later to determine whether the brain activity observed during the scans could predict memory. The results were sorted according to the numbers of negative and neutral pictures that were remembered or missed by each group. Older adults were able to recall fewer negative images than the younger group. Report author Professor Roberto Cabeza, from Duke University, North Carolina, United States, said: "Older people have learned to be less affected by negative information in order to maintain their well being and emotional state. "They may have sacrificed more accurate memory for a negative stimulus, so that they won't be so affected by it. "Perhaps at different stages of life, there are different brain strategies. "Younger adults might need to keep an accurate memory for both positive and negative information in the world. "Older people dwell in a world with a lot of negatives, so perhaps they have learned to reduce the impact of negative information and remember in a different way." Co-author Peggy St Jacques said: "It wasn't surprising that older people showed a reduction in memory for negative pictures. "But it was surprising that the older subjects were using a different system to help them better encode the pictures they could remember." The findings may help to enhance memory in older adults with memory defects and assist with research related to dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. The study is published in the journal Psychological Science. |
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In thread after thread our forum favorite Gio longs for the 50's. Well, today I saw something that explains it! Gio, I am old too as are many posters here...please don't take being reminded of your age to hard. And to the rest of you...with luck you too will get old! Older people really do view past through rose-tinted spectacles Scientists have discovered why older people tend to view the past through rose-tinted spectacles. Researchers found that ageing brains allow negative memories to fade leaving pensioners with a distorted impression of how great life was in their younger days. It is believed that as we get older we learn to be less affected by negative information in order to maintain our well being. In contrast, younger adults need to keep an accurate memory of both positive and negative information to help them through their working life. Therefore younger people remember more negative events than their older counterparts. The study also found differences in the way the brains work. Older adults had fewer connections between an area of the brain that generates emotions and a region involved in memory and learning. Instead they have more connections between the area that detects emotion and the area that controls emotions. This may allow the elderly to effectively control which memories they retain and which they do not. The scientists showed a series of 30 photographs to one group of adults with an average age of 70 and another group with an average age of 24. Some of the photos were neutral in nature and others showed strong negative images such as attacking snakes, mutilated bodies and violence. The volunteers were asked to look at the photos while their brains were scanned by an MRI machine - a device that uses a large magnet to take pictures inside the brain. Volunteers completed an unexpected recall task half an hour later to determine whether the brain activity observed during the scans could predict memory. The results were sorted according to the numbers of negative and neutral pictures that were remembered or missed by each group. Older adults were able to recall fewer negative images than the younger group. Report author Professor Roberto Cabeza, from Duke University, North Carolina, United States, said: "Older people have learned to be less affected by negative information in order to maintain their well being and emotional state. "They may have sacrificed more accurate memory for a negative stimulus, so that they won't be so affected by it. "Perhaps at different stages of life, there are different brain strategies. "Younger adults might need to keep an accurate memory for both positive and negative information in the world. "Older people dwell in a world with a lot of negatives, so perhaps they have learned to reduce the impact of negative information and remember in a different way." Co-author Peggy St Jacques said: "It wasn't surprising that older people showed a reduction in memory for negative pictures. "But it was surprising that the older subjects were using a different system to help them better encode the pictures they could remember." The findings may help to enhance memory in older adults with memory defects and assist with research related to dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. The study is published in the journal Psychological Science.  Very interesting and thought provoking. Thank you for sharing that.
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Thu 12/18/08 04:08 PM
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Another good read!!! Gio is probably taking another cold shower being the good christian boy he is.
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The subject of cold showers belongs on another thread I think.
I remember reading something about how important is was to be able to forget some things. If you remembered everything you took in from birth forward your mind and emotions would be overwhelmed they say. |
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The subject of cold showers belongs on another thread I think. I remember reading something about how important is was to be able to forget some things. If you remembered everything you took in from birth forward your mind and emotions would be overwhelmed they say. |
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I think Oscar Wilde sums it up best...
The soul is born old...but...grows young... that is the comedy of life...the body is born young...and...grows old....that is life's tragedy...  ...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh for the 50's...
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I am much more able to handle negativity than I ever was. Making me far less affected emotionally by the negativity.
So for me it's a good thing, if I read it right. 'soul is born old and grows young' So that would mean that people who learned nothing from life, eventually die completely ignorant. Doesn't sound all that positive to me..  Ack!!
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