Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Our fMRI scanning reveals that middle age represents the transition between the patterns observed in youth to that found in old age. The seesaw imbalance in the two frontal lobe areas is not as significant as in older adults, but the functional changes are detectable by middle age.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

We in middle age require adventure.