A new study from Germany has likened the memory abilities of older people to full hard drives: They don't lose cognitive power over time; they just function slower because of an increasing amount of information.
All patients had four or more of the following neurocognitive symptoms: impaired cognitive functioning, slowed processing speed, sleep disturbance, short-term memory deficit, fatigue and symptoms consistent with depression.
Even the market seems to be functioning in slow motion and the rare vehicles are the pick-ups of the Malian army or UN force.
Although only 11% of older men and 16% of older women develop Alzheimer's disease [ 2], many cognitive functioning processes slow significantly with aging [ 3].
As people age, their appetite may decline, and physiological functions slow down.
Left over files, broken interlinks and conflicting software can quickly cause issues, tying up the device's processor unnecessarily and making other necessary functions slow down.
"When you're older your ability to problem solve becomes more difficult, because as you age your brain slows down; and when your brain slows down, all your other functions slow down too.
When any of these three functions slow down, we slow down.
This result was predicted by the extended error-likelihood model of Brown and Braver [48], [49] for altered ACC-functioning: slow ACC learning rates resulted in a decreased error-likelihood effect.
Similarly, under voltage clamp conditions (the 'SEClamp' function) slow and fast potassium currents were measured for consecutive voltages steps.
However, they failed to explain why aging represents slow and concerted decline of many physiological functions (slow phenoptosis) rather than simple fast switching off of a single function of vital importance (acute phenoptosis).
