“The regions that decrease the functional connection with the age of the people are regions related to increased connection when people have children,” said Avram Holmes, leading author, associate professor at Robert Wood Johnson’s medical school and the Rutgers Institute of Health. focused on brain regions involved in motion, sensations and social behavior.
The researchers analyzed the brain scan of almost 37,000 adults in the British Biobank and were concentrated on the brain -related brain, sensation and social behavior. They found that the parents had a stronger functional connection in key brain networks, especially responsible for motor and touch functions. These regions usually weaken with age.
