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    Aging brains can miss important cues

         老化的腦會錯過重要提示

 

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There is a reason so many people fall for financial scams, new research suggests. They don’t respond as readily to visual cues that suggest a person might be untrustworthy, and their brain don’t send out as many warning signals that ignite a danger –ahead gut response.

    新研究顯示許多老人容易被人詐欺是有原因的。因為老人不能在面對那些看起來不值得信任的人前看出對方的特點，而且老人的腦無法在面對過度勇敢決定時發出前有危險信號。

    The research, published in December in the Proceeding s of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that older adults’vulnerability may be rooted in age-related neurological changes.

    十二月在Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences上發表的這份研究顯示出老人之所以易受傷害是根源於年紀造成的神經病變。

    Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that an area of the brain was muted when older people looked at photographs of suspicious-looking individuals, known as the anterior insula, that area activities gut-level feelings that help individuals assess risks.

    從加州大學來的研究人員發現老人在看著那些看起來似乎是可疑之人的照片時，其大腦該有反應的部分區域卻無反應。腦中這一部分又稱為直覺反應區，這區的功能就是幫助人類評估危險。