Harvard’s Shelley H. Carson often stops random old people to do a”brain check”
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.
Continue reading… “The Older Brain may be a Wiser Brain”
