Brain Aging Quotes

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a molecular level how a neuron dies after a stroke, a seizure, Alzheimer's, brain aging, and what these stress hormones do to make it worse.

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

The worst old age is that of the mind.