With over one in three people, memory declines with age. Neuroscientists from the Free University of Amsterdam have recently shown how and where this happens in the brains. This offers new opportunities for the treatment of memory problems with elderly people.
Receptor
With over one in three people the memory and concentration ability will decline with age. This is partly because the amount of the messenger substance acetylcholine in the brains decreases when getting older. Acetylcholine makes signal transportation from one nerve cell to the other possible.
The memory and concentration ability may imrpove by stimulating the receptor that recognizes and captures the acetylcholine in the brains. This way signal transmission in the brains will be better which will result in an improvement of the memory and concentration.
The researchers showed in their study that a particular component of the acetylcholine receptor is essential for optimal concentration. In addition, they showed in which part of the brains this process occurs.
Treatment
The results of the research, which will be published in the scientific journal 'Schience' this Friday, make a major contribution to our understanding of how attention and concentration in the brains are organized at molecular level.
This knowledge also provides clues with which after further inquiry problems on concentration and memory at aging may be treated better.
So what would this mean for our future grandchildren? They may either rejoice or get frustrated, because stories about the good ol' days will be longer, a lot more detailed, and well..yeah..Longer, much much longer.
source: www.nu.nl
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