Bingeing and purging involves eating much larger amounts than normal (bingeing), then attempting to compensate by removing the food consumed from the body (purging). Types of Bingeing.
Adulthood: Psychosocial Development Changes During Middle Age Is middle age a time of crisis & upheaval? Many personal changes occur during middle age, including: 1. the awareness that one is beginning to grow old. 2. the need to make adjustments in parental roles as children enter adolescence & subsequently adulthood. 3. reaching a plateau in ones career.
Nervous system. Changes in the structures of the brain due to normal aging are not striking. It is true that with advancing age there is a slight loss of neurons (nerve cells) in the brain. This is because, in the adult, neurons have lost the capacity to form new neurons by division. The basic number of neurons in the brain appears to be fixed by about the age of 10.