THE WISDOM PARADOX - ELHONON GOLDBERG

I heard about this book wile watching a Youtube video of one of favorite doctor and writer Sinan Canan . He said that in this book the author -who is neuroscientist doctor- discovered the shrinkage of his his own brain while making MRI scanning during the years while aging.

The book is full of quite scientific description of brain and its neuro activities during aging. What the researcher  discovered that in recent syposiums held in brain neuroscience , some parts of the brain continue produce neurons despite natural beleif of NNN "no new neurons" after adult periods. Here I want mention few of them. 

Encaged rats having plenty of toys, ladders et cetera develop larger brain compared to ones deprived of it. It has been detected that some part of the brain get bigger of cab drivers, as well as bilingual persons, musicians and jugglers  brain enlargement has been detected. 

"The left hemisphere of our brain decays faster than the right"

"The right hemisphere benefit more from mental exercises."

"The better education is protective factor for brain decay by aging as these persons work more mentally than brawn."

The musical passion of many scientists -like Einstein violin - can be that tacitly they discovered the beneficial side of enhancing their brain in general. 

Avram Aji
30.04.2020