Neurology Medicine

According to statements by one of the authors of the research, psychologist Denise Head, appeared in a statement from Washington University, the results are a first step toward understanding how personality can affect brain aging. Head argues that these data clearly demonstrate a relationship between personality and brain volume, particularly in brain regions associated with social information processing and emotions.

Also, the researcher adds that the results suggest that personality influences the degree of aging of the human brain and also the way the brain aging may affect the personality of each individual. The researchers plan to conduct future studies to monitor the structural changes that will suffer the brain of the participants in this research, in order to deepen this process and its links to personality.