FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 4 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers found a link between more mentally challenging an occupations, such as physician, and reduced loss of brain function when elderly.
Gwenith Fisher of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and assistant professor of psychology at Colorado State University, and colleagues at the University of Michigan analyzed brain function before and after retirement. The also analyzed an occupation's characteristics using the website O*NET.