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why old adults go safe and younger ones go risky
amazus.org — Different areas of the brain when taking risk decisions are activated between young adults and older adults and also older adults display a significantly higher rate of selecting safe responses when compared with younger adults. Obviously younger adults make more risky responses than safe responses.
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- x123bv, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1the changing patterns in our brain determine how we behave…
- Slices, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2this probably explains why so many of us youngsters (myself included) act so foolishly so often, and keep refusing listening to reason!
- KonaGirl, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Very interesting article. I wonder what the brain responses show for people with addictive behavor patterns. Is this a trend of the brain to be be malfunctioning in continuous risky behavior?
- skewl, on 04/04/2008, -0/+3I think it's been proven that the part of the brain that deals with risk-taking develops last. Therefore, teenagers can be just as smart as adults, and have the same information, but just not really care for the consequences.
- x123bv, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1different parts deal with risk taking has you get older... because of the change of the neuronal patterns
- x123bv, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1well... we just deal with the same task in a different way as we get older because our brain doesn’t work the same way and now is proven!
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