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Posted by: pyderi 5 months, 1 week ago

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Different areas of the brain when taking risk decisions are activated between young adults and older adults and also older adults display a significantly higher rate of selecting safe responses when compared with younger adults. Obviously younger adults make more risky responses than safe responses.

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Endoscopy5 months, 1 week ago

Seems obvious to me that a wisdom factor kicks in as a person gets older. Seeing and hearing of people in similar circumstances modifies a persons outlook on what is considered an acceptable risk.
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  BoxMonkey5 months, 1 week ago
  
  Agreed.
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pyderi5 months, 1 week ago

but did you know that different parts of the brain get activated for the same task like risk taking decisions has you age?
It's in the full story...

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ETproductions5 months ago

Nice find, pyderi. Thanks for sharing.
I guess I am not at all surprised by this. Older people are going to have a rich history of memories of similar decision points, what was decided, and how that played out. So in consulting all these related memories, it is only to be expected that more areas of the brain would light up, and that the process would take longer.
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cowboygrandpa5 months ago

Well yeah. Why do you think they want the young to be soldiers? Us older vets know what is up. Thats why I listened to my sarge more than my looneytentant.
My sarge had years in service and was pretty savvy. My looneytenant was a 90 day wonder with less field experience than me. LOL
Same thing in life. Listen to a college grad with no life experience and a manager with years of experience. The book may say one thing but reality is another.
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pyderi5 months ago

maybe as we get older different parts of the brain get activated modifying our behavior

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Francisca5 months ago

Thanks Pyderi! This study is obviously true...We have an old adage:"if youth knew, if age could"...
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