The Girl Who Does Not Age

Posted by Queuebot in Baby & Kids, Medicine on June 25, 2009 at 2:29 am

At 16 years of age and weighing only 16 pounds, Brooke Greenberg has a previously-undescribed condition which in many aspects seems to show an absence of aging of the body.

She is infantile in size, but she does not have ordinary dwarfism. She still has her baby teeth. Her cognition is that of a child. Her bone age is only that of a 10-year old.

Does Brooke hold the secret to the fountain of youth? Her physicians are hopeful that sorting out the mechanism for her persistent youthful characteristics might lead to more insights on the normal process of aging:



Brooke hasn’t aged in the conventional sense. Dr. Richard Walker of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says Brooke’s body is not developing as a coordinated unit, but as independent parts that are out of sync. She has never been diagnosed with any known genetic syndrome or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why.

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Cognitive Ability Declines Starting at Age 27

Posted by Alex in Medicine on March 16, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Sorry to bring you the bad news, guys. Timothy Salthouse, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia studying cognitive aging, found that reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualization start to decline at age 27:

The first age at which there was any marked decline was at 27 in tests of brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability.

Things like memory stayed intact until the age of 37, on average, while abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.

Professor Salthouse said his findings suggested "some aspects of age-related cognitive decline begin in healthy, educated adults when they are in their 20s and 30s."

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Tales of Mere Existence by Levni Yilmaz

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic, Video Clips on January 27, 2009 at 8:37 pm

In this awesome animation titled "Tales of Mere Existence," Levni Yilmaz of Ingredient X tells us his theories and observations about youth and aging. One thing’s for sure, George Bernard Shaw nailed it on the head when he said that "Youth is wasted on the young."

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