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Living Beyond 100

The Aging of the Brain by Professor Carol Barnes. One of the great frontiers of contemporary science is exploration of the mind. The brain embodies our individual identities as well as our ability to cooperate with others to understand the remaining mysteries of our universe. It is composed of billions of cells, the connections amongst which capture and preserve unique experiences. Over the past half-century, ideas about the aging brain have evolved away from it being an organ of passive deterioration towards the realization that it is capable of dynamic adaptation and high levels of function well past 100 years. One question remains - can we all achieve this?

3. The Aging of the Brain


Go to the Series Home or watch other lectures:

1. Can We, and What if We Do?
2. The Biology of Aging: Why Our Bodies Grow Old
3. The Aging of the Brain
4. Repair, Regeneration and Replacement Revisited
5. Society, Geographic Change and the New Longevity
6. Information and Immortality