Aging is often wrongly associated with a decline in cognitive abilities, especially those abilities important for maintaining functional independence such as learning new skills or pursuing further and enhancing old skills. The aging/learning question remains moot despite a plethora of tests and studies that seem, at first glance, to suggest More

No wonder, then, that researchers studying a phenomenon known as social buffering found some puzzling results when they studied teenagers. Social buffering is a way of describing the protective, positive effect of one individual on another. It describes the power of one person to reduce another’s stress. … But how does that More