Aging Baby Boomers have taken a variety of approaches to keep their cognitive abilities sharp, from meditation to specially designed games to (my personal favorite) eating chocolate.
But new research finds one factor that influences the rate at which our brains age is largely outside our control: our socioeconomic status.
"We provide evidence that there exists a powerful relationship between an individual's present environment and their brain," a research team led by Micaela Chan and Gagan Wig of the University of Texas–Dallas writes in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[For more of this story, written by Tom Jacobs, go to https://psmag.com/social-justi...e-bad-for-your-brain]
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