Guest Post by Zoe Kentucky
Great. I am so screwed.
Scientists have scanned the brains of young people when they are doing, well, nothing, and they found that a region active during this daydreaming state is the one hard-hit by the scourge of old age: Alzheimer’s.
“We never expected to see this,” said Randy L. Buckner, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Washington University in St. Louis. He said he suspects these activity patterns may, over decades of daily use, wear down the brain, sparking a chemical cascade that results in the disease’s classic deposits and tangles that damage the brain.
Just what I needed to hear, daydreaming may be bad for my health. Between that and graduating from the #1 pot-smoking college in America I should just give up already, accept the fact that my poor brain is fighting an uphill battle. Most people get better with age, I’m destined to just….um, forget.
Let the bad news just pile on, it washes over me, lovingly, like a ton of bricks.