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super excited about it.”

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study published in the journal Nature

In a study
Neuroscience on Monday, researchers from
Boston University detail how they asked a
group of 20-somethings and a group of
people in their 60s and 70s to complete a
task designed to test their working memory,
which is the part of our short-term memory
that we use for reasoning and decision-
making.

Working memory typically begins declining

around the time we hit 30 years old, so as
expected, the people in their 20s
outperformed the older group on the
memory task.

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However, after the members of the older

group received 25 minutes of mild
stimulation via scalp electrodes, they
performed just as well as the younger
participants — and the memory boost still
hadn’t subsided by the time the experiment
ended 50 minutes later.

According to the researchers, the benefits of

this noninvasive treatment could extend
beyond those whose working memory
has started to succumb to age, too. They
found that stimulating the brains of the
younger people who performed poorly on the
task boosted their memories as well.

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