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Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Talents of a Middle-Aged Brain

In "The Talents of a Middle-Aged Brain." Tara Parker-Rope, begins,

After we hit 40, many of us begin to worry about our aging brains. Will we spend our middle years searching for car keys and forgetting names?

Parker-Rope then asks the book's author, Barbara Strach, several questions, among them:

Q. So what’s the bad news about the middle-aged brain?

Q. So what kinds of things does a middle-aged brain do better than a younger brain?

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What about activities like learning to play an instrument or learning a foreign language?

Q. What was the most surprising thing you learned about the middle-aged brain?

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