Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain (NYTIMES)

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Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser BrainNew York Times, United States - May 19, 2008 We believe that this characteristic may play a significant role in why we think of older people as wiser. In a 2003 study at Harvard, Dr. Carson and other ...

 

 

Slow?-- you are not LOSING your memory--- you are simply USING

it with broader parameters to make connections, recognize patterns and evaluate significance --

kids don't have the "files" available to them to do this to the same

degree, nor did you a couple decades back---perhaps the "dumbing

down"//"no child gets ahead" that seems to permeate America isn't quite

as severe as you sense--- by comparison, you're simply getting

sharper-- (sounds like it has to be correct, doesn't it?--damn, I

misplaced my ARICEPT® , again!!)--Keep the faith, UncBob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brainexcerpted below... see link(s) for a little more....

 

When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party,

they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing

number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong.

 

Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in

more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information, often to

its long-term benefit.

The studies are analyzed in a new edition of a neurology book, Progress in Brain Research.

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Some brains do deteriorate with age. Alzheimer’s disease,

for example, strikes 13 percent of Americans 65 and older. But for most

aging adults, the authors say, much of what occurs is a gradually

widening focus of attention that makes it more difficult to latch onto

just one fact, like a name or a telephone number. Although that can be

frustrating, it is often useful.