Like many Americans sliding into middle age, Kimberly McClain started worrying that her memory was beginning to slip.
The amazing fertility of the older mind
It’s never too late to learn – if you go about it in the right way.
Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasing
Study Reveals a Surprising Cause of Cognitive Decline—and the Key to Reversing It
Researchers pinpoint a lone protein that speeds up the dysfunction of an aging brain. Eliminating it, they claim, can reverse the damage. But there are big hurdles before a treatment is approved.
Use the 2-7-30 rule to radically improve your memory - Fast Company
150 years of science shows this brain hack can radically improve your memory. Entrepreneurs and anyone else who needs to learn things fast should take note.
What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? (Published 2014)
Ellen Langer’s experiments have shown that mental attitudes might reverse some ravages of old age. Now she wants to test that same radical principle on cancer.
Brett Scott (@brettscott)
Despite all the rhetoric about automation supposedly making our lives easier, the true story being told by Big Tech is that our lives are better when speeded up You are supposed to be in an ever-accelerating race, packing more units of experience into the same unit of time, a phenomenon that requires a contraction of patience and a blurring of experience as everything quickens In the end, this is what ‘convenience’ actually is. It’s a state of being in which you become disassociated and disengaged from the texture of the world around you. You pass through it dreamlike, and suddenly wake up decades years later as an elderly person on your deathbed, thinking “WTF happened”, as then the memory slips away
Use it or lose it: How cognitive skills change with age
Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for rapidly ageing populations. But this assumption relies largely on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between ageing patterns and cohort differences. Using German longitudinal data, this column finds that skills, on average, increase markedly into one’s 40s before decreasing slightly in literacy and more severely in numeracy. In addition, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage, outlining a clear policy pathway for avoiding skill declines.
To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget | Quanta Magazine
Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, suggesting that forgetting may be the default mode of the brain.
Does adolescence really last until age 32?
Those “turning points” in brain aging aren’t quite what you think
The gut microbiome may influence brain aging, mouse study suggests
A communication pathway between the brain and the gut may be integral to how well the brain holds on to memories
Joelle McTigue | Artist
Joelle McTigue is an artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure.
Mental time travel: a new case of autobiographical hypermnesia
Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as autobiographical hypermnesia, or hyperthymesia. This fascinating condition remains poorly understood, and each new case contributes to our understanding. In a recent article in Neurocase, researchers from Paris Brain Institute and the Memory, Brain, and Cognition Laboratory (LMC²) in Paris describe the extraordinary mental life of a 17-year-old girl.
Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors
None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.
Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? | Contrary Research
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
Does Exercise Slow the Aging Process?
Almost any amount and type of physical activity may slow aging deep within our cells, and middle age may be a critical time to get the process rolling.
Switching Off One Crucial Protein Appears to Reverse Brain Aging in Mice - Slashdot
A research team just discovered older mice have more of the protein FTL1 in their hippocampus, reports ScienceAlert. The hippocampus is the region of the brain involved in memory and learning. And the researchers' paper says their new data raises "the exciting possibility that the beneficial effec...