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The Seattle Longitudinal Study, which followed 6,000 people for 54 years, testing them every 7 years has found that, on average, participants performed better on cognitive tests in their late 40s and 50s than they had in their 20s. The older people did better on tests of vocabulary, imagining, problem-solving, language and on job-related studies they out-perform younger ones. The good news is that we keep our long-term memory with age.

A new studies have found that:
-human brain hits its peak between age 40 and 60;
-amount of myelin, fatty substance insulating brain’s cells and accelerating signals between them, increases well into middle age, boosting our brainpower;
-rather than losing many brain cells as we age, we retain them;
-brain even generate new brain cells well into middle age;
American scientists scanned the brains of 70 men aged 19 to 76, and found that in two crucial areas, the amount of myelin peaked at the age of 50, and in some

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