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Some elderly individuals match or even outperform younger individuals on cognitive tests.
"Super-agers" avoid the destructive changes that happen to our brains when we age.
Researchers examined cognitive performances of 81 adults in different ages and found 17 super-agers.
Researchers paid special attention to the default mode network, the salience network in participants brains.
In super-agers, the activity in these networks was more coordinated than in their peers.
More education and a cognitively demanding job predict having higher cognitive abilities in old age.
Having a healthy social life in old age can protect against cognitive decline.
The research was published in Cerebral Cortex journal.
