Longevity & Aging
This term refers to the maximum number of years a person can live.
What is lifespan?
The brain loses about this percentage of its weight between ages 20–90.
What is 5–10%?
The most common chronic condition in late adulthood.
What is arthritis?
This type of memory involves conscious recall of facts and events and declines with age.
What is explicit memory?
This is a general term for disorders involving decline in mental functioning that affects daily life.
What is dementia?
This term refers to how long the average person is expected to live.
What is life expectancy?
This brain area shrinks and is linked to slower thinking and working memory decline.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This condition involves loss of bone density and increases fracture risk.
What is osteoporosis?
This type of memory involves skills and habits and is less affected by aging.
What is implicit memory?
This disease accounts for 60–80% of dementia cases.
What is Alzheimer’s disease
People who live to 100 years old are called this.
What are centenarians?
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This term refers to the brain’s ability to create new neurons.
What is neurogenesis?
Lung capacity decreases by about this percentage between ages 20 and 80.
What is 40%?
This phenomenon explains why older adults remember more from their teens and 20s.
What is the reminiscence bump?
This brain change in Alzheimer’s includes protein buildup damaging neurons.
What are amyloid plaques (or neurofibrillary tangles)?
This paradox describes how a group in the U.S. lives longer despite lower income and education levels.
What is the Latino Health Paradox?
Using both hemispheres to compensate for aging-related decline is called this.
What is delateralization?
This type of disease has slow onset and long duration and is common in older adults.
What is a chronic disease?
This cognitive ability involves holding and manipulating information (like mental math).
What is working memory?
This condition is a transition between normal aging and dementia.
What is mild cognitive impairment (MCI)?
This theory says aging occurs because harmful traits appear after reproduction and aren’t selected against.
What is the evolutionary theory of aging?
This brain chemical decreases with age and affects movement and motivation.
What is dopamine?
This psychological factor in nursing homes is linked to lower mortality rates.
What is perceived control (or autonomy)?
This principle suggests mental activity helps maintain cognitive functioning.
What is “use it or lose it”?
This disease involves tremors and is caused by loss of dopamine-producing neurons.
What is Parkinson’s disease?