{"id":2435,"date":"2019-04-12T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T07:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neu-brains.site\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2019-05-21T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:24:08","slug":"aging-of-the-brain-can-not-challenge-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/2019\/04\/12\/aging-of-the-brain-can-not-challenge-new-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Can an aging brain challenge new things?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you sometimes feel like you don&#8217;t want to try out new things? Or that you can&#8217;t get your work done as fast as you did when you were younger?<br \/>\nAs we get older, it gets harder to want to try out new things, which is said to be an aspect of an aging brain. This is due to the brain losing its function as it ages, but it is the decline of the prefrontal activity that particularly affects the quality of life.<br \/>\nThe prefrontal cortex not only moderates thoughts and impulses, but also motivation. It is one of the interesting phenomena of the aging brain that makes you feel as if you can&#8217;t or don&#8217;t want to challenge new things.<br \/>\nFor example, a younger-aged brain has a wider working area to process information and a better ability to simultaneously calculate things. However, as we age, the area that processes information shrinks, our ability to calculate slows down and even our energy to work significantly decreases.<br \/>\nHowever, the brain&#8217;s prefrontal cortex can still be activated and trained no matter how old we age. By continuing brain training through activities such as calculation and games, and even reading out loud, the prefrontal cortex is activated, so that interest in new things will rekindle and motivation recharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you sometimes feel like you don&#8217;t want to try out new things? Or that you can&#8217;t get your work done as fast as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu-brains.site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}