Decades of Money Trouble Tracked With Weaker Thinking Scores at Fifty Three in a Long-Running British Study
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Prolonged financial problems at a young and middle age can have a negative impact on the brain after decades, and scientists at the University College of London (UCL) have come to the conclusion that almost 2,800 British residents have studied the data, and a study published in Innovation in Aging covered 2,759 participants in the famous 1946 British generation. Scientists have been monitoring the level of income and financial difficulties of pa…
Financial Hardship Linked to Brain Shrinkage and Cognitive Decline, Study Finds
A 70-year study of British adults found that persistent financial hardship was associated with lower scores on memory and processing speed tests by age 53, and later brain scans showed signs of tissue shrinkage, according to findings published in the journal Innovation in Aging. The research tracked nearly 3,000 participants from […]
Prolonged financial hardship during adulthood may be linked to faster cognitive decline and poorer brain health in older age, according to a new study from University College…More...
A decades-long study tracking people born in the UK in 1946 found that those who experienced prolonged low income or repeated financial hardship in adulthood had, on average, poorer memory and information processing speed at age 53. Some of these persistently low-income individuals also showed more signs of brain atrophy on brain scans between the ages of 69 and 71. However, the study only found a correlation and cannot yet prove that prolonged …
Long-term financial hardship can have a significant impact on age-related cognitive decline, according to research led by University College London. The study, published in the journal Innovation in Aging, analyzed data from 2,759 people in the United Kingdom who provided information about their living conditions through regular questionnaires over decades as part of the 1946 British Study.
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