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Signals between some regions of the brain may be fastest at age 34, while transmission in other areas gets steadily faster with age. Understanding this may improve our knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions such as schizophrenia
Health 9 January 2023Neuron connection speeds can increase or decrease with age Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment RF/Getty Images
The speed at which our neurons communicate with each other changes as we age and may increase in some regions of the brain. A better understanding of how neuron transmission speeds vary throughout a person’s life may improve our knowledge of certain neurodevelopmental conditions, such as schizophrenia.
Dora Hermes at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and her colleagues measured neuron transmission speeds in 75 people, aged 4 to 51, while they had surgery to monitor their epilepsy. For these …
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