Bring Back The Thrill
October 8, 2008
A study published by the National Institute of Mental health will have us know that you don’t have to be old to not get excited over presents or the possibility of being able to enjoy am ice-cream sundae after a good soccer game. Even though the amounts of ‘dopamine’ the pleasure chemical in the brain declines with age you seem to lose your pleasure in life’s finer thing. The study will have us believe that help is on the way.
The study conducted a research on a number of males in the age group of 20 – 65 and discovered from FMRI scans on the subjects that the younger lot a greater activity index of the dopamine-triggered area of the brain as they viewed video clips of slot machines and unmentionables here. This activity was far greater as compared to the activity of their older counterparts in the study who were given the same films to view. But then some of us will argue that the older ones had already done that so many times that it failed to arouse any interest in them while the younger lot probably fantasized the film as it happened!
Dr Patrick Rowan of the research team and Chief of the mental health ambulatory care at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn said that for most people everything begins to decline after they cross the age of 30. He said the dropping levels of dopamine are the cause of people losing interest but there is help on the way. There are therapies that will increase the level of this pleasure chemical in the brain and old timers will begin to experience the pleasures they did when they were younger.
So, grandsons can look forward to some stiff competition from their grandpas in the coming future should their grandpas decide to leave their domain and invade the younger territory!
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