The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Being in Your 50s
The decade when emotional regulation peaks, when the brain learns to want what it has rather than what it lacks, and when the upswing from the midlife nadir begins in earnest
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The fifties are the decade that the brain has been preparing for all along. The speed has gone. The hormonal turbulence of the forties is settling. The children are leaving or have left. And something unexpected happens: happiness begins to rise. The U-curve of wellbeing, which bottomed out in the late forties, inflects upwards during the fifties, producing a form of contentment that is neurologically distinct from the happiness of youth. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of being in your fifties, examines why emotional regulation improves as cognitive speed declines, and argues that the fifties brain, despite its structural losses, is in many respects the most emotionally sophisticated brain the person has ever possessed.
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