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Oct 17, 2025

3 min

Why do older adults tend to use more brain areas to solve a given problem than younger adults do?

According to research published in *eLife*, some brains can successfully compensate for age-related deterioration by recruiting other brain areas to maintain function. This phenomenon helps explain why older adults tend to use more brain areas to solve a given problem than younger adults do, employing a range of adaptive and compensatory neural strategies.

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Oct 16, 2025

4 min

How does the brain compensate for its age-related changes?

Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that older adults often activate different and additional brain regions compared to younger adults while performing the same cognitive tasks. This recruitment of new or alternative neural circuits is a key mechanism for how the brain compensates for its age-related changes, often referred to as cognitive scaffolding.

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