Some people in their 80s remember as well as people in their 50s and 60s, and a 2026 Nature study found something extraordinary in their brains: roughly twice as many young neurons in the hippocampus as typical older adults — evidence that exceptional ageing may involve not just preserving neurons, but continuing to make new ones.
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Some people reach their eighties with episodic memory that would be impressive in someone decades younger. Researchers call them SuperAgers, but the name does not mean they escape every ordinary effect of ageing. It refers to performance on a specific kind of memory test.
A 2026 study in Nature found an intriguing difference inside six donated SuperAger brains. In the hippocampus, a region central to forming and retrieving memories, these donors had roughly twice the abundance of immature neuron
A 2026 study in Nature found an intriguing difference inside six donated SuperAger brains. In the hippocampus, a region central to forming and retrieving memories, these donors had roughly twice the abundance of immature neuron
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