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Memory Loss In Old Age No Longer

Bob Houston bobh-vbm at pacbell.net
Tue Jul 27 11:32:10 EST 1999


As I grow old, I'm 76 now, I find little problem with memory loss.  It is just
that it takes longer for recall.  The names come later than when I want to
include them in conversation.  I know that that is a universal problem.  How
can we sharpen recall?
Bob

John wrote:

> "While the brain demonstrates a remarkable ability to compensate for those
> losses--forestalling any noticeable effect until the losses become, she
> said, "very, very profound"-- it now appears that even those neuron losses
> that do occur are confined to populations of cells that may not play any
> significant role in memory.
>
> "It represents a real paradigm shift in neuroscience," Gallagher said. ....
> "
>
> http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home98/nov98/brain.html
>
> All these paradigm shifts. Is everybody looking for a Kuhnian 'revolution'?
> Until hitting the Internet I never realised there were so many people out
> there trying to revolutionise the world. I grow old I grow old I aint
> wearing the bottom of my trousers rolled and I'll shoot the first mermaid
> that sings to me.
>
> John
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