NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions — including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving — started to dull as early as age 27.

Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.
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Feeling that one is being treated unfairly is a sure guarantee of unhappiness and can quickly put a person into a sour mood.

But researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard find that it can also be hazardous to your health.
Their work is part of a larger research project studying aging and health.

In the study appearing in a forthcoming issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity, UW-Madison researcher Elliot Friedman and his colleagues report that men who report they have been passed over for promotion, denied a bank loan or felt numerous other, in their view, unfair “slings and arrows or outrageous fortune” show an increase in the level of E-selectin in their blood. This molecule is an indicator of blood vessel damage and is a marker for later heart problems, explains Friedman, a researcher at UW’s Institute on Aging and Department of Population and Health Sciences.

Researchers, he says, “are interested in discrimination as a psycho-social stressor – discrimination may produce worse health outcomes because being discriminated against is stressful, and leads to biological changes that can predict disease.”
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