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We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It's pretty extraordinary for people in their 80s and 90s to keep the same sharp memory as someone several decades younger, and now scientists are peeking into the brains of these "superagers" to uncover their secret. The work is the flip side of the disappointing hunt for new drugs to fight or prevent Alzheimer's disease. Parts of the brain shrink with age, one of the reasons why most people experience a gradual slowing of at least some types of memory late in life, even if they avoid diseases like Alzheimer's. But it turns out that superagers' brains aren't shrinking nearly as fast as their peers'. And autopsies of the first superagers to die during the study show they harbour a lot more of a special kind of nerve cell in a deep brain region that's important for attention. Jeff and Anthony remember to try and stay on topic.

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0:00.0	Jeff, let's say somebody wanted to get early episodes of the show.
0:03.9	Is that possible?
0:04.6	It is so possible!
0:06.0	If people wanted to get bonus episodes of the show, is that possible?
0:08.4	We got those too!
0:09.4	If people wanted to get extra stuff, video hangouts with us and other fans of the show, is that possible?
0:15.2	Dude, I'm telling you, all of that and more is possible.
0:18.4	All they got to do is support the show.
0:20.1	How do they do that?
0:20.9	Go to patreon.com slash we have concerns, find out all the information you need, and help us continue to make this show.
0:30.0	It is mind numbing, but it is something to do.
0:46.4	Yeah, you just sit there.
0:48.1	I noticed that you didn't end your sentence with, but it is so worth it.
0:52.6	That's not what you did.
0:54.1	This is We Have the Surrence!
0:57.9	Hi Jeff Canada!
0:59.0	Hi Anthony Carvoni!
1:00.0	Hello concerned citizens.
1:01.8	You know, as you get older Jeff, you specifically because I'm still very young.
1:08.3	But as you get older, I've noticed about you.
1:10.8	What have you noticed?
1:11.8	How much better I get?
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