Membrane Lipids in the Aging Human Brain

The membrane lipid composition of human brain has been studied in 21 men and 18 women 60-97 years of age. This brain tissue series is unique, because it has been obtained only from individuals who lived a normal social life in their own homes and died suddenly and unexpectedly from arteriosclerotic heart disease or ruptured aortic aneurysms. They had no history of neurological or psychiatric disease. Macroscopic and microscopic examinations...