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Who are you calling over the hill? The truth about brain ageing
It’s not necessarily correct that our cognitive skills decline as we get older.
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Some laboratory studies suggest that older adults tend to underestimate the power of their memory.
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Sarah O’Connor
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When I was in my late 20s, I remember reading a pop science article which told me that I had already passed my cognitive peak. I had barely started my career, and already my brain was apparently on an inexorable downward slope.
I shrugged it off at the time, but as I enter my 40s, I find the idea more depressing. How many years before people begin to tell me encouragingly that what I lack in cognitive skill I make up for in “wisdom”? Am I going to have to start doing crosswords to slow my inevitable decline?
