What can neuroimaging tell us about the aging brain and cognition?

我们可以从神经影像学中获得哪些脑老化和认知方面的收获？

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In fact, a study published this week in the journal Brain and Cognition shows that when you boost the level of communication between the right and left hemispheres your creativity increases.

事实上，本周发表在《脑与认知科学》的研究表明，当你提高左右半脑的交流水平时，创造力也随之提高。

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It will also buy you increases in the volume of various brain regions in the prefrontal and temporal cortex, and more efficient neuronetworks that support the kind of cognition we examined.

“它也会为你换来大脑中额叶和颞叶皮层等区域容积的增加，并为支持我们所测试的认知能力带来更有效率的神经元网络”。

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It may be that loneliness may affect systems in the brain dealing with cognition and memory, making lonely people more vulnerable to effects of age-related decline in neural pathways, he suggested.

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Dr Matthew Brett, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. said there had only been limited research into the long-term effects of motherhood in humans.

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Researchers from the MRC's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in Cambridge, found some children with ADHD, who had no brain damage and perfectly normal intelligence, showed left neglect as severe as that seen in some adults with substantial damage to the right side of the brain.

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