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Mental Reserves Keep Brains Agile
NY Times ^
| December 11, 2007
| JANE E. BRODY
Posted on 12/17/2007 9:29:40 PM PST by neverdem
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posted on
12/17/2007 9:29:41 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I can’t remember what I had for dinner.
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posted on
12/17/2007 9:31:25 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: neverdem
Dominoes and ROOK was my POPS favorite.
To: Graybeard58; neverdem
I can’t remember what I had for dinner. But do you really want to remember what you had for dinner?
To: neverdem
My dad and mom who are in their upper 80s kick butt on Boggle (and I scored in the top 1% in the verbal section of the GRE).
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posted on
12/17/2007 9:43:29 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Paleo Conservative
But do you really want to remember what you had for dinner?Sirloin from Omaha Steak, I'll have to think about it.
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posted on
12/17/2007 9:46:16 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/17/2007 9:57:14 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: Paleo Conservative
I cant remember what I had for dinner.But do you really want to remember what you had for dinner?
I didn't say that.
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posted on
12/17/2007 10:06:14 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Paleo Conservative
Kidding aside, my short term memory is getting worse. I'm 62 years old, that may have something to do with it.
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posted on
12/17/2007 10:08:04 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: neverdem
The brain needs exercise.
To: Graybeard58
We have a saying that it’s ok if you forget where the keys are all the time. When you don’t know what the key is for though there is a problem.
To: neverdem
The brain synapses of a child are new and very impressionable.
when one gets much, much older, our brains are ‘full’ , and ‘used’.
The synapses don’t hold a new or temporary memory as well, and require repeated imprinting to hold the memory.
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posted on
12/17/2007 11:42:50 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
To: Graybeard58
I was wrapping Christmas presents this afternoon including various books for family members. I wrapped one book and then couldn’t remember who it was for and worse than that I couldn’t remember what book it was!. I had to unwrap it and then wrap it and put the sticker on it.
It was a dictionary for Scrabble and it was for my daughter and my granddaughter to share when they get together...
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posted on
12/17/2007 11:43:06 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Lost another one to the Tag Line bandit...)
To: neverdem
They need to establish a mental reserve in Seattle!
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posted on
12/18/2007 12:10:18 AM PST
by
rahbert
To: Graybeard58
Kidding aside, my short term memory is getting worse. I'm 62 years old, that may have something to do with it.Try taking the supplement Pycnogenol. It's been the object of several medical studies. Good for your vascular system and oxygenation of the brain. I've been taking it for years as it helps keep blood sugars from spiking and dropping radically. I'm hypoglycemic and haven't had a situation where I've started shaking when my blood sugar drops since I started taking it. My memory is great now and it seems to help me with that feeling that my brain is in a fog.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:52:13 AM PST
by
texgal
(end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
To: neverdem
I’m working with my daughter’s Nintendo DS and “Brain Age”. I am dead serious when I tell you that I have stopped having the mom moments since working on it.
In my family, you either get cancer and die by 60 or have horrible “Old timers disease” as my aunt calls it. I’m hoping to avoid both.
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posted on
12/18/2007 5:25:33 AM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Financing James Marsden's kid's college fund, 1 ticket, 1 DVD at a time.)
To: Graybeard58
Both my short term and long term are changing....But when I'm working (mathematics), I have no problem at all.
I think I may be drawing from this reserve "thing", pushing other memories to the back of the shelf. These "lost memories" seem to be recoverable...but it's almost like I have refiled them elsewhere and have to "research" their whereabouts.
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posted on
12/18/2007 7:43:41 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: tubebender
I was wrapping Christmas presents this afternoon including various books for family members. I wrapped one book and then couldnt remember who it was for and worse than that I couldnt remember what book it was!. I had to unwrap it and then wrap it and put the sticker on it. I picked out a great book on snowboarding for my daughter - in fact, it was so great that I bought it last year, too. By the time I remembered, I had already wrapped and sent it !
To: Red Boots
and now the rest of my story. When I got all done my wife told me I had bought the electronic version last year!...
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posted on
12/18/2007 3:18:56 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Lost another one to the Tag Line bandit...)
To: Sacajaweau
Both my short term and long term are changing....But when I'm working (mathematics), I have no problem at all. No big deal. That's just being an absent minded professor.
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posted on
12/18/2007 3:43:20 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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