André Aleman (1975) is professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Department of Neurosciences of the UMCG and the Department of Psychology of the University of Groningen. In October 2012, Aleman's book Het Seniorenbrein (The Older Brain) was published, in which Aleman addresses the question of what is going on inside our head as we age. When does the decline set in? How quickly does it happen? And does an older brain have any advantages? Aleman demonstrates that the decline is often less serious than we tend to believe.