A brand new examine of 340 wholesome Dutch centenarians1 residing independently finds they “skilled no decline in main cognitive measures, aside from a slight loss in reminiscence operate” akin to what one may count on in the event that they had been of their 70s. Some of the studied centenarians, in actual fact, had brains that appeared very wholesome, and so they carried out at a excessive degree on cognitive checks. Others who died with no discernible degradation of their recollections or their skills to narrate to others and clear up issues had their brains examined, and here is the place it will get wild: Their grey matter was as marred and scarred as that seen in individuals who die with superior Alzheimer’s, but their mind operate was by no means compromised. And the oldest of those people was 108.