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What is white matter?
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Myelinated neurons
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What is grey matter?
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Unmyelinated neurons
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When does grey matter begin reducing?
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From early 20s
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When does white matter increase/decline?
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Increases until about 40s/50s and then starts to decline as myelin breaks down
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Is there a greater loss of grey or white matter by age 70?
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White matter
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What is fluid IQ?
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The capacity to think logically and solve
problems in novel situations independent of acquired knowledge |
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What is crystalised IQ?
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Acquired knowledge
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In older age is there a decline in fluid IQ or crystalised IQ?
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Fluid IQ
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What emotions are older adults significantly worse at recognising (faces)?
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Anger, sadness and fear
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Which brain structure, relatively spared in older age, is involved in the processing of disgust?
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The basil ganglia
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The orbitofrontal cortex is associated with what emotion?
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Anger
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Which region is associated with the processing of sadness and fear?
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Amygdala
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The Anterior Cingulate Cortex is associated with processing which emotions?
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Anger and sadness
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