Now that you are in the kitchen...what did you come for? Is this forgetfulness the beginning of the great decline?
Barbara Strauch, the health and medical sciences editor at
The New York Times and author of
The Secret of the Grown Up Brain, acknowledges brain loss as we age but also provides examples of boomer cognitive growth and social expertise.
Strauch's NPR interview and
book excerpts will make you proud of all the ways we are smarter than the 20-somethings.
Posted on May 2, 2010
