Forgetful? Distracted? Foggy? How to keep your brain young - Features - Health & Families. As far as structure of your grey matter is concerned, once you’re past the mid-twenties, it’s downhill all the way - your brain begins to shrink.
Structural decline is inevitable and an inescapable fact of life. If we lived to be 150 years old, we’d all eventually display signs of Age Related Cognitive Decline (ARCD) as a result of the natural processes of brain ageing. Being around that long would mean that at some point we would all have succumbed to the forgetfulness, distractedness and compromised problem solving that characterises ARCD. Loading gallery.
Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life. How Barbara Arrowsmith-Young rebuilt her own brain. It's the kind of memory that stays with you.
When she was in first grade, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's Ontario primary school teacher told her mother – in her presence – that she had some kind of "mental block", and would never be able to learn. Now that she has helped more than 4,000 learning-disabled children overcome precisely that kind of diagnosis, of course, she can laugh at it. But she didn't at the time. Arrowsmith-Young, now 61, talks fluently and passionately and with great erudition.
Dreams. Autism. Depression.