[ExI] Personality may influence brain shrinkage in aging

[BillK]

Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis have found an
intriguing possibility that personality and brain aging during the
golden years may be linked.
<http://www.physorg.com/news189188726.html>

“A unique thing that we’ve done is to reliably measure personality
differences and associate them with age-related effects on brain
structures in healthy middle-aged and older adults” Head says.
“Specifically, we found that neuroticism was associated with greater
age-related decline in brain volume, whereas conscientiousness was
associated with less age-related decline.”
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Bah!  And I was looking forward to being a grumpy old man, moaning
about everything.

Now I've got to be insanely cheerful about everything.

Still, the good side is that that will probably annoy people even more!

Win - win!

BillK