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When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife
HarperCollins
April 2007
On Sale: April 3, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0060598697
EAN: 9780060598693
Hardcover
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Why can't you
remember where you put your keys? Or the title of the movie
you saw
last week? Or the name of your favorite restaurant?
Acclaimed
journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin takes readers on a lively
journey to
explain what happens to memory and attention in middle age.
Along the
way, she turns up fresh scientific findings, explores the
dark regions
of the human brain, and hears the intimate confessions of
high-functioning midlife adults who—like you—want to
understand exactly
what's going on upstairs. Anyone older than forty
knows that
forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes
terrifying.
With compassion and humor, Jakobson Ramin sets out to
discover what
midlife forgetfulness is all about—from the perspectives of
physiology,
psychology, and sociology. Relentless in her search for
answers to
questions about her own unreliable memory, she explores the
factors
that determine how well—or poorly—one's brain will age. She
consults
experts in the fields of sleep, stress, traumatic brain injury,
hormones, genetics, and dementia, as well as specialists in
nutrition,
cognitive psychology, and the burgeoning field of drug-based
cognitive
enhancement. The landscape of the midlife brain is not what
you might
think, and to understand its strengths and weaknesses turns
out to be
the best way to cope. Jakobson Ramin's reporting of the
stories of a wide array of midlife men and women will
resonate with
readers. Her audience will glean spectacular insight into
how to elicit
the very best performance from a middle-aged brain. A
groundbreaking
work that represents the best of narrative nonfiction, this is a
timely, highly readable, and much-needed book for anyone
whose memory
is not what it used to be.
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