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"I Can't Remember"
Business Week Cover Story ^
| September 1, 2003
| Cover Story
Posted on 08/26/2003 8:48:00 AM PDT by BILL_C
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The 76-year-old California lawyer appears to be the very model of healthy aging. C.L., who asked that his name not be used, hikes two miles up a nearby mountain four times a week, is always reading two or more nonfiction books at a time, and boasts that his waist and chest measurements haven't changed since he was 25. This take-charge guy expects a lot of himself. But for the past six years, his memory hasn't measured up. He occasionally forgets a name, he loses his train of thought when there are distractions, and he has walked away from six pairs of expensive sunglasses. "People who are very well-trained intellectually notice when they begin to lose that ability to grab onto every word, every concept," he says. "It's like a significant part of your life is erased."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aging; alzheimers; dementia; dimentia; memory
"At the start of the trial, I could remember less than five words out of a list of 20. By the second week, I could get 14 out of 20. There was a very, very appreciable enhancement." He has since finished his part in the study and says it was "heartbreaking" to go off the drug. "I've been thinking of some other way to get it, and I don't give a damn if it's legal or illegal." That says it all!
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posted on
08/26/2003 8:48:01 AM PDT
by
BILL_C
To: BILL_C
"I've been thinking of some other way to get it, and I don't give a damn if it's legal or illegal." That says it all! If it's illegal, he can always just claim he forgot it was against the law.
To: BILL_C
...what was this article about, again?
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posted on
08/26/2003 8:57:07 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: martin_fierro
I know I had something brilliant to say here...now what was it!?
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posted on
08/26/2003 9:04:26 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: BILL_C
What's the point? Even if he gets permission to take the drug, he won't remember to...
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posted on
08/26/2003 9:08:38 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: MEG33
I know I had something brilliant to say here...now what was it!?
Actually, the jokes will change from those about forgetting...... to questions about "have you taken your brain vitamin today".
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posted on
08/26/2003 9:09:21 AM PDT
by
BILL_C
To: BILL_C
Did I already post on this thread?
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posted on
08/26/2003 9:09:52 AM PDT
by
LJPenney
To: MEG33
You're in trouble now! Memory is the second thing to go.
(I forgot what was first....)
To: pabianice
What's the point? Even if he gets permission to take the drug, he won't remember to...Yup...I had that exact same problem with Ginkgo Biloba, LOL!
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posted on
08/26/2003 9:42:56 AM PDT
by
firewalk
To: BeforeISleep
Ok brain let's get things straight. You don't like me, and i don't like you, so let's do this so i can go back to killing you with beer."
- Homer Simpson
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