Your Mind at Middle Age: A Review of The Grown-Up Brain - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Your Mind at Middle Age: A Review of The Grown-Up Brain - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Developmentally, it turns out that, while we might not be growing tons of new neurons as we age, our brains do gain more myelin, the fatty substance that facilitates connections between neurons, for many decades. Also, it turns out that the brain compensates for aging by getting its hemispheres to work together. This 'bilateralization' allows the brain to work more efficiently than it does at earlier times of life. Education helps facilitate this process."