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The midlife memory meltdown: first you forget a dentist's appointment. Next it's your ATM password. And then (kill me now) you can't recall your own dinner guest's name. Cathryn Jakobson Ramin explores the humiliating lapses of the aging brain--and what you can do to combat them.(mindwise)
From:
O, The Oprah Magazine
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May 1, 2007| Author:
Ramin, Cathryn Jakobson
| COPYRIGHT 2007 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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I'D BARELY CROSSED THE THRESHOLD OF MIDDLE AGE. AS a journalist, I was invested in staying smart and quick, mistress of my good brain and sardonic tongue. But almost overnight, I found that I was missing critical information--the names of people and places, the titles of books and movies. Worse, I had the attention span of a flea. I was having trouble keeping track of my calendar, and my sense of direction had disappeared. The change was so dramatic that sometimes I felt foreign to...
