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By Anita Garner.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr. Daniel Levitin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A neuroscientist writes about age-related memory loss and it’s positive and encouraging and wow I hope it’s all true.\u00a0 This brief excerpt from his book appeared recently in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

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Everyone Knows Memory Fails as You Age. But Everyone Is Wrong.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By Daniel J. Levitin
\nJanuary 10, 2020<\/p>\n

Even 20-year-olds forget the simplest things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 62 years old as I write this. Like many of my friends, I forget names that I used to be able to conjure up effortlessly. When packing my suitcase for a trip, I walk to the hall closet and by the time I get there, I don\u2019t remember what I came for.<\/p>\n

And yet my long-term memories are fully intact. I remember the names of my third-grade classmates, the first record album I bought, my wedding day.<\/p>\n

This is widely understood to be a classic problem of aging. But as a neuroscientist, I know that the problem is not necessarily age-related.<\/p>\n

Short-term memory contains the contents of your thoughts right now, including what you intend to do in the next few seconds. It\u2019s doing some mental arithmetic, thinking about what you\u2019ll say next in a conversation or walking to the hall closet with the intention of getting a pair of gloves.<\/p>\n

Short-term memory is easily disturbed or disrupted. It depends on your actively paying attention to the items that are in the \u201cnext thing to do\u201d file in your mind. You do this by thinking about them, perhaps repeating them over and over again (\u201cI\u2019m going to the closet to get gloves\u201d). But any distraction \u2014 a new thought, someone asking you a question, the telephone ringing \u2014 can disrupt short-term memory. Our ability to automatically restore the contents of the short-term memory declines slightly<\/em> with every decade after 30.<\/p>\n

But age is not the major factor so commonly assumed. I\u2019ve been teaching undergraduates for my entire career and I can attest that even 20-year-olds make short-term memory errors \u2014 loads of them. They walk into the wrong classroom; they show up to exams without the requisite No. 2 pencil; they forget something I just said two minutes before. These are similar to the kinds of things 70-year-olds do.<\/p>\n

The relevant difference is not age but rather how we describe these events, the stories we tell ourselves about them. Twenty-year-olds don\u2019t think, \u201cOh dear, this must be early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s.\u201d They think, \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot on my plate right now\u201d or \u201cI really need to get more than four hours of sleep.\u201d The 70-year-old observes these same events and worries about her brain health. This is not to say that Alzheimer\u2019s- and dementia-related memory impairments are fiction \u2014 they are very real \u2014 but every lapse of short-term memory doesn\u2019t necessarily indicate a biological disorder.<\/p>\n

In the absence of brain disease, even the oldest older adults show little or no cognitive or memory decline beyond age 85 and 90, as shown in a 2018 study<\/a>. Memory impairment is not inevitable.<\/p>\n

Some aspects of memory actually get better as we age. For instance, our ability to extract patterns, regularities and to make accurate predictions improves over time because we\u2019ve had more experience. (This is why computers need to be shown tens of thousands of pictures of traffic lights or cats in order to be able to recognize them). If you\u2019re going to get an X-ray, you want a 70-year-old radiologist reading it, not a 30-year-old one.<\/p>\n

So how do we account for our subjective experience that older adults seem to fumble with words and names? First, there is<\/em> a generalized cognitive slowing with age \u2014 but given a little more time, older adults perform just fine.<\/p>\n

Second, older adults have to search through more memories than do younger adults to find the fact or piece of information they\u2019re looking for. Your brain becomes crowded with memories and information. It\u2019s not that you can\u2019t remember \u2014 you can \u2014 it\u2019s just that there is so much more information to sort through. A 2014 study<\/a> found that this \u201ccrowdedness\u201d effect also shows up in computer simulations of human memory systems.<\/p>\n

Recently, I found myself in an office elevator in which all the buttons had been pushed \u2014 even though there were only three of us in the elevator. As the elevator dutifully stopped on every floor, one of the people standing next to me said, \u201cLooks like some kid pressed all the buttons.\u201d We all laughed. I thought for a moment and offered, \u201cI was<\/em> that kid about 50 years ago,\u201d and we all laughed again. And then I thought: My memories of being 10 years old are clearer than my memories of 10 days ago. Shouldn\u2019t that seem odd?<\/p>\n

But in the warm, familiar privacy of my own mind, it didn\u2019t seem odd at all: I am that same person. I don\u2019t feel 50 years older. I can see the world through the eyes of that mischievous 10-year-old. I can remember when the taste of a Butterfinger candy bar was the most delectable thing in the world. I can remember the first time I encountered the grassy smell of a spring meadow. Such things were novel and exciting back then, and my sensory receptors were tuned to make new events seem both important and vivid.<\/p>\n

I can still eat a Butterfinger and smell spring meadows, but the sensory experience has dulled through repetition, familiarity and aging. And so I try to keep things novel and exciting. My favorite chocolatier introduces new artisanal chocolates a few times a year and I make a point to try them \u2014 and to savor them. I go to new parks and forests where I\u2019m more likely to encounter the smells of new grasses and trees, new animal musks.<\/p>\n

When I find them, these things I remember for months and years, because they are new. And experiencing new things is the best way to keep the mind young, pliable and growing \u2014 into our 80s, 90s and beyond.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Daniel J. Levitin is a neuroscientist and the author of \u201cSuccessful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives,\u201d from which this essay is adapted. He is a cognitive psychologist, bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco, and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the author of This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, and A Field Guide to Lies. He divides his time between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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