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Throughout recorded history, the tragedy of aging has been, not that it comes, but that so often, it brings with it a host of changes in the psychosocial patterns of the individual, changes that may degrade and enfeeble the most gallant and competent. We cannot fail to share, as psychiatrists and as human beings, the pain of subject, family, and friends walking this bitter path together. But we must not lose sight of the fact that where substrate mechanisms can be identified, there is hope, if not of a way back, then at least of a gentler path which may give to more of the aged, some measure of those much-celebrated compensations of age.
“But an old age serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night Shall lead thee to thy grave.”
Wordsworth
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Scheibel, M.E., Scheibel, A.B. (1977). Differential Changes with Aging in Old and New Cortices. In: Nandy, K., Sherwin, I. (eds) The Aging Brain and Senile Dementia. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3093-6_4
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