Young People With Slower Reaction Times May Have Higher Death Risk

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Earlier research has shown a link between risk of death and poorer cognitive function in elderly people, which has been attributed to the brain degeneration that typically accompanies aging. But the findings regarding younger participants in the study were surprising.

. "These results suggest that reaction time is not merely an indicator of age-related physiological deteriorations but rather an indicator of the brain's more basic information-processing ability," say the authors, "suggesting that slower and more variable processing skills are a risk factor for mortality in themselves."

 

[ViviTheMage]

good thing i play cs, keep the reaction times up!

 

[Heisenberg]

Well in the old days if you were slow to react you got eaten by a lion or something, so I can kind of see this.