I can feel my brain shrinking like a dried-out sponge.
Studies have shown that while the brain shrinks in size, the number of cells stays relatively constant.
The brain shrinks 8percentt during pregnancy and does not return to its former size until six months postpartum.
In many elderly people the brain shrinks in size, but the shrinkage does not necessarily lead to mental changes.
Vitamin B12 could help stop the brain shrinking - possibly preventing memory loss in older people and dementia.
"It's as if the cortex of the brain is so seriously damaged that the brain shrinks very quickly," says Jailson de Barros Correia, paediatrician, professor of infectious diseases and health chief of Recife.
Methamphetamine drastically alters the brain, shrinking it 1% a year with heavy use.John Hoffmeister, a policeman in Salem, Oregon, says that his officers find children of meth addicts who are unfed, living amid garbage, their parents too "tweaked" to provide minimal care.
The average brain shrinks at a rate of 0.5% a year after the age of 60.
The image was a brain shrinking.
The human brain shrinks with age, and this shrinkage is differential and selective, 62 whereas both cerebellar grey and white matter show accelerated structural decrease.
