August 26, 2017
You will never be as clever as you were at the point you left education. And if that’s not depressing enough, even then you were quite possibly past your prime.
Even so this discovery is actually positive, say the authors of a new study into our cognitive decline over our lifespan. While there has until now been an assumption that our brains start declining as soon as we enter our 20s, their work implies we can stave this off, for a while, by continuing to learn.
Read more from The Times | August 26th, 2017: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/stay-in-eduation-to-keep-your-ageing-brain-agile-7mx2mmt5m