Aging

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It takes nearly three decades to build a fully-developed, adult brain. With all that effort, what’s so special about the end result?

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What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Aging

Our best insights into how the normal brain ages come from long-term studies of the nervous system that began decades ago.

Trophic Factors

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