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Image credits: Jaromír Kavan. Hopefully, your elderly friends and family are in good driving shape. Nonetheless, age-related declines in cognitive functioning can occur. If this happens, it can affect one’s driving abilities. “Despite dementia and other neurobiological disorders that are associated with aging, improved imaging has revealed that even into our seventies, our brains continue producing new neurons,” notes the Dana Foundation, an organization based in New York committed to ad...

Published: 10:41 AM February 3, 2021    A team from the UEA is currently recruiting online for volunteers to take part in the Driver Effect of Cognitive Impairment and Spatial Orientation and Navigation (DECISION) study - Credit: SUPPLIED A team of scientists in Norwich investigating the changes in everyday driving in people aged over 65 is calling on volunteers to help with research.  Taking place at the University of East Anglia, the study aims to establish whether thinking and spatial nav...