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memory helper is a serious and very
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Shelves lined with ginkgo biloba,
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enhancing memory and brain power.
According to recent articles in the
Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, Nutrition
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Advocate, traditional medicine has not
found any proof that these products
help memory in healthy people and
the evidence that it helps people with
mild memory loss is very preliminary.
Moreover, many of the products
haven't been adequately tested.
It appears then that the old adage,
"use it or lose it," also applies to
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essarily a sign of senility."
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between memory and intelligence;
some people are better at organizing
concepts and information, while oth-
ers are better at storing details so that
what is remembered, even about the
same event, can be very different.
There is, however, a difference
between diseases such as Alzheimer's,
senility, hardening of the arteries and
ordinary forgetfulness.
The mysteries of memory have
long eluded scientists, but research
has shown that normal memory is
complex.
Until recently, brain experts could
track the anatomical traces of human
memory only indirectly by studying
people whose memories were selectively
damaged from strokes or head injuries.
Using a new technique to record elec-
trical signals from individual neurons
involved in making long-term memory,
neurologists at UCLA probed the
human brain to see how individual
brain cells can remember what the con-
scious mind has forgotten.
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