Neuroplasticity Mania!

Meghan O'Rourke:

Not long ago, I began to get mild migraines that lasted a few days. The headaches weren't bad, but while they endured, it seemed to me, my memory began to grow newly … indefinite. I had never been good at remembering names of characters in books or movies. But now I couldn't remember the names for things like "sideboard" or "remote control" or "Graydon Carter." Had early senility taken hold? Or was this the hidden price of today's chaotic information-age lives—of answering hundreds of e-mails while juggling phone calls and text messages, jumping every time Outlook went ping? So I did what it seemed everyone else was already doing: I began a regimen of crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and physical exercise to try to reduce my "brain age." I could only hope irreparable damage hadn't already been done...

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