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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, According to a 25-Year Study
Description: Memory is the glue of life. Without it, our focus softens, our experience of the world blurs, and our identities melt away. But as people age, their memory declines. Many billions of dollars have been spent to understand the biological basis of dementia and to devise a cure. In most cases, they have failed spectacularly.
But what if, rather than study the brains of people with advanced memory loss, we instead studied the brains of people with the opposite condition: extraordinary memory and brain health in old age?
For the past few decades, Sandra Weintraub...