Do parents have better resilience to aging?

Non-invasive neuroimaging techniques provide an insight into how different life experiences change our brains over a lifetime, and how these experiences might affect resilience to the aging process. “Aging and parenting sound kind of separate, but they’re related by that common thread of cognitive reserve and resilience to the aging process,” says Sharna Jamadar (left), a cognitive neuroscientist at the Turner Institute at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), whose research looks at both aging and parenthood. Jamadar is broadly interested in how life experiences change our brain over the course of a lifetime and her research focuses on the concept of...