{"id":12577,"date":"2019-02-05T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2019-02-05T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:10:20","slug":"scans-show-womens-brains-remain-youthful-as-male-brains-wind-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12577","title":{"rendered":"Scans Show Women&#8217;s Brains Remain Youthful As Male Brains Wind Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Women tend to have more youthful brains than their male counterparts \u2014 at least when it comes to metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>While age reduces the metabolism of all brains, women retain a higher rate throughout the lifespan, researchers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1815917116\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Monday in the journal\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/02\/04\/691356272\/scans-show-womens-brains-remain-youthful-as-male-brains-wind-down\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Women tend to have more youthful brains than their male counterparts \u2014 at least when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12578,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions\/12578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}