The male brain shrinks more rapidly with age than its female counterpart, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobe regions. This was reported by C Edward Coffey and his team of the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, USA. Because men are more prone to age-related memory loss than women, the faculty of the brain shrinkage makes a nice connection. Men aged between 66-96 years had a 30 per cent rise in cerebro-spinal fluid which is an indicator of brain shrinkage as compared to just one per cent in women. Moderate intake of alcohol was helpful to check the shrinkage while hypertension accelerated the ageing of brain ( Archives of Neurology , Vol 55, No 2).