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The weekly roundup - Dec 2nd
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:01:48
Publish Date: 2016-12-03 02:01:07
Description: Because of the recent holiday break, we didn’t run our usual line-up this past week; instead we gave you a hint of the some of the stories to come. This includes an interview with UC San Diego’s Dr. Dilip Jeste. He had some good news about aging and described how his study contradicts the conventional notions that aging is pretty much all ‘gloom and doom’. In this excerpt, Jeste describes what makes their study different. “Usually, when people mention aging, they are thinking about physical aging, that's the only component that figures in ministries of aging, but aging is multidimensional. Physical health is one dimension. Another dimension is cognitive function, or cognitive health. So, that is what is being studied when we are looking at people with Alzheimer's Disease or other dementias. But the component of aging that is least studied is the psychosocial component of aging." So, Jeste took a multidimensional approach , which you'll want to hear about next week. And in another upcoming episode, we’ll dial back the years to reflect upon adolescence. Adrianna Galvan of UCLA studies how changes in brain maturation during adolescence relate to adolescent behavior and decision-making. Here she describes why adolescence is often fraught with emotion. "There is probably an evolutionary reason for why teenagers are more emotional. One reason is that emotions help us connect with other people. And during adolescence, it's really important that we establish good relationships, or understand the social rules of interacting with others, of having romantic partners, and so the emotional reactivity helps adolescents in that regard.” Don’t miss these and many other stories about the latest research at the University of California. Subscribe to Science Today on iTunes or follow us on Soundcloud. Thanks for listening, I’m Larissa Branin. Subscribe to Science Today: iTunes: apple.co/1TQBewD Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/science-today Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ucsciencetoday Stories mentioned in this roundup: https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/jeste_aging https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/emotional_teens
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