Posted on 2/6/2019
With the help of PET scans, researchers have found women’s brains appear to be three years younger than men’s. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may explain why women remain mentally sharper longer than men.
Despite each gender’s brain achieving the same chronological age, men’s brains start adulthood about three years older than women’s, meaning their brains do not age faster, but are metabolically older than women’s, senior author Manu Goyal, MD, assistant professor of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, explained in a prepared statement.
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