The Brain and Aging

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"Weighing less than sixteen hundred grams (three pounds), the brain is the center of the human's being. It can store more information than all the libraries in the world and is responsible for the human's most primitive urges, his ideals, his thinking and his actions. Growing right along with the rest of the body, the brain, like everything else animate, goes through an aging process. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the normal aging process and the physical changes that take place within the organ. In addition, the research will relate these changes to what is known of the behavioral and cognitive effects of aging.

A definition of the brain follows:
The portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that constitutes the organ of thought and neural coordination, ... "

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