OT---Is this True??

Jiles · Jul 27, 2014

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much.
> Scientists
> believe, people do not decline mentally with age, it just
> takes them
> longer to recall facts because they have more information
> stored in
> their brains, much like a computer struggles as the hard
> drive becomes
> more full, so humans also take longer to access information,
> it has
> been suggested.
>
> Researchers say this slowing down is not the same as
> cognitive
> decline. The human brain works slower in old age, said Dr.
> Michael
> Ramscar, but only because we have stored more information
> over time.
> The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary,
> they
> simply know more, but just may not be able to access the
> information...
>
> Also, older people often go to another room to get something
> and when
> they get there, they
> stand there wondering what they came for. It is
> NOT a memory problem, it
> is nature's way of making older people do more
> exercise.
>
> SO THERE!

Ron in Can · Jul 27, 2014

Oh this is so very true I am so much exercise lately that I have lost 20 lbs

fixerupper · Jul 27, 2014

Most of it is something I have believed for years. We just plain have more information in our brains to sort through. Some people have a faster cranial processer and can get to it quicker than others. My cranial processor is at about one megahert where most others are in the gigs and terras. LOL Jim

RickieBlue · Jul 27, 2014

We all understand how a computer slows up as we have more programs running..this ties up the memory much like a human...think about it..we only understand how a human memory operates..how would we build a memory that operates any differently..not possible..humans have not progressed far enough to build anything different than they understand.......my 2 cents......

samn40 · Jul 27, 2014

Doctors thought I was dyslexic when I was at school....but after
many tests they discovered I was just thick!!!!....hasn't changed
much over the years!.................
Sam

JF in MI · Jul 27, 2014

Wow, that's a switch. When I was in school they didn't have any dyslexic kids like me. We were all just 'lazy'.

Dick2 · Jul 27, 2014

That might explain why I can't remember something - then it will come to me a day or 2 later.

Dachshund · Jul 27, 2014

Wait....give me a day or two, and a response will
come to me.....

ShadetreeRet · Jul 27, 2014

Considering all the other derogatory explanations for the aging mind slowing down, I much prefer to think of it from your point of view.

Billy Shafer · Jul 27, 2014

My brain slowed down when I got married. Since she knew everything. No need for me to think.

rrlund · Jul 27, 2014

It gets to be like putting a gallon of knowledge in a shot glass of a brain. lol

IrvIA · Jul 27, 2014

Mine's on a mental rolodex that I have to crank by
hand......takes more than a couple days, sometimes.

Bob N.Y. · Jul 27, 2014

I have been calling it "overload" for years.

IH2444 · Jul 27, 2014

So it is mental constipation?

Paul from MI · Jul 27, 2014

Every one knows that alcohol kills brain cells, but I figure it's kind of like the law of the jungle. Only the weak antelope are caught by the lion, thus the alcohol only kills the weaker brain cells, leaving the strong ones intact. I think that's why I am so much smarter after I've had a few.

Ian Beale · Jul 27, 2014

Heard a while ago

"The human brain has computing abilities beyond those of electronic computers

It is a little slow on recall

And it is the only computer that can be constructed entirely by unskilled labour"

donjr · Jul 27, 2014

My solution for that was to join D*A*M. In case you're wondering, that's 'Mothers Against Dyslexia'........

Pete in MD · Jul 27, 2014

That sounds like Cliff Clavin's buffalo theory.
Buffalo Theory

jennifer408 · Jul 28, 2014

who knows, im 54 and have retained tons of knowledge, mind you i have forgot more then some has ever learned. maybe the old man used to be a genius, cause now a days he can't find his glasses or a screwdriver he sat down 2 minutes ago. goes around all day yelling at himself for being stupid. geeeze, i never want to be that smart.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2014

thanx pete ,, ol cliff hit the nail on the head

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