Raji’s statement is provocative, but his point is that lifestyle and life events are major contributors to our brain health. “Brain aging is an artifact of the pathologies that accumulate throughout life.” Louis, who points to Andel-Schipper as an example. Cyrus Raji, an assistant professor of radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. “I think what people call ‘brain aging,’ doesn’t exist as such,” said Dr. A subsequent autopsy of her 115 year-old brain in 2005 revealed that it was completely free of any dementia-related diseases associated with “old age.” The Dutch centenarian Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper astonished scientific researchers both in life and in death: When they performed cognitive and psychological tests on her at the age of 113, they found that her mind performed better than most 60-75 year olds.
