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Brain Decline Begins At Age 27

Posted by timothy on from the mine-started-before-that dept.

krou writes "The BBC is reporting that a new study suggests that our mental abilities start to dwindle at 27 after peaking at 22, and 27 could be seen as the 'start of old age.' The seven-year study, by Professor Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia, looked at 2,000 healthy people aged 18-60, and used a number of mental agility tests already used to spot signs of dementia. 'The first age at which there was any marked decline was at 27 in tests of brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability. Things like memory stayed intact until the age of 37, on average, while abilities based on accumulated knowledge, such as performance on tests of vocabulary or general information, increased until the age of 60.'"

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  1. It's been too long since I've seen one of these by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's one of these, you ask? An AC post that mentions NIGGERS of course! Post your nigger jokes here!

    Q: How come police dogs keep licking their asses?
    A: To get the taste of NIGGER out of their mouths!

    Watch the easily offended start frothing at the mouth. Really, I think taking racial differences so damned seriously is part of the problem, not the solution. So make a joke. Laugh. Realize we're not so different after all and use humor to deal with our differences because it sure is better than using conflict to deal with our differences. And then get pissed off anyway and mod me down, you know you wanna :).

    1. Re:It's been too long since I've seen one of these by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      WHAT??!!

      DUDE thats not cool my girlfriend is 100% BLACK and she gets straight As and shes in a sorority thats not the stereotype of black people. she is also pretty and listens to EMO and INDIE music and her dad is an engineer so her major is business.

      WHY do people think its cool to be racist thats not funny it really hurts those people when you call them nigger and say they eat watermelons and malt liqor and KFC and mentholated grape cigarettes and gold rims and DVD players for Geo metros.

      if you want people to like you then you cant be an asshole about talking SHIT and wanting attention for it, didn;'t your mommy tell you "no you can't say that stuff" ? I read /. because i want to have intelligint conversations not to deal wtih racist BS.

  2. Thanks for making my birthday today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    assholes.

  3. fi8st! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    were IcomTpounded users. Surprise

  4. Re: When decline begins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As soon as you start killing brain cells with alcohol and other drugs.

  5. Re:YMMV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You ale using Engrish. Prease realn the diffelence between roose and rose; they'le, thele, and theil; youl and you'le.