09-05-2025
Want to stay sharp? How curiosity can boost the midlife brain
Have you found yourself doing a deep dive into birds of prey? Pledged to understand atomic physics? Made it your mission to revisit the works of William Wordsworth? If your thirst for knowledge knows no bounds, and you've long since left your youth, you'd be forgiven for feeling vindicated this week.
While it has long been thought that the older we get, the more restricted our world view becomes, a new study has revealed that curiosity actually increases with age. Research published in the journal PLOS One found that although our overall inquisitiveness, also known as 'trait curiosity', largely declines with passing years, our interest in more specific topics, or 'state curiosity', continues to grow after middle age.
'In midlife people are focused on careers
