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Memory Loss In Old Age No Longer

Steve rstevew at armory.com
Tue Jul 27 23:19:20 EST 1999


Bob Houston wrote:
> 
> 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
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Perhaps we need to persuade people to lengthen their conversations so
they don't miss the result of the mature mind!
-Steve ;-> 
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> 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
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