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A basic answer one would get upon asking someone old enough about the difference in their mental faculties now and during childhood would be regarding the better grasping capacity they had. As it has been researched and recorded, the brain does get rigid and mind tends to have greater 'inertia' as it becomes mature, and that aint always a good thing. A young brain learns and absorbs information much faster, and is much more 'malleable' , even allowing it to recover from trauma faster. Found out in a research at Yale university, a single gene, the Nogo receptor gene I , is what is responsible for this effect that age has on the brain, which as it turns out, is due to slowdown of the synaptic connections and the inter transmission.
The research was done on mice (as usual) and it was found that the mice with suppressed Nogo receptor I genes retained the mental capacities and physiology of adolescent mice, as well as the ability to recover from an injury Nogo receptor is also found to be slow the loss of memory , so mice without this gene forgot bout stressful memories sooner. Though yeah other memories need to be tested as well to fully realize the side effects of suppressing this gene
“These are the molecules the brain needs for the transition from adolescence to adulthood,” said Dr. Stephen Strittmatter. Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology, Professor of Neurobiology and senior author of the paper. “It suggests we can turn back the clock in the adult brain and recover from trauma the way kids recover.”
The reseach has been puclished in the Neuron
Source: Yale via Gizmag
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