“For the young people, it’s as if the distraction never happened,” said an author of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute. “But for older adults, because they’ve retained all this extra data, they’re now suddenly the better problem solvers. They can transfer the information they’ve soaked up from one situation to another.”

hey mate, I love your clip tags: thank god. lol! I better not show this to my mum coz I still pick on how she cant remember her own mb number.. if only you could clear their cache...

Alzheimer’s disease scares the heck out of me. I remember visiting my great grandmother a long time ago before she died. She was always a walking encyclopedia of information, but my last memory of her in the hospital was when she asked why there were so many bald men in the room. The bald men were actually a bunch of balloons someone had left with flowers.

She lived a long happy life, and it was sort of funny and not-so funny at the same time when she made that comment.

if only you could clear their cache

hahahahhahaha, baby? I so need a defrag on this particular hard drive!

@Alanocu:
Hopefully we all won't know what's in store for us, except for me I suppose. Oh well, the meaning of that comment is only known to me and me only.

Great clip Debby.

I often forget that I have Alzheimer's

It is a very good subject and it is a fact. This studies has to be continued because I've done same since 40 years on peoples 12 to 18 years and I did find that those who forget the names and phone numbers are much clever than others who didn't forget.

Sorry I forgot to tel you that i"m not too old. lol

Sorry I forgot to tell you that i"m not too old.

Me either sugar!!!! hahahahahahaha

Great clip! Hope!

How old do I have to be before the wisdom kicks in?

hahahahahahaha,
Good one Tany!

einstein didn't "remember" his own telephone number but he knew how to obtain it if needed. said he'd rather dedicate his brain to thinking rather than memorizing.
that's wise, eh?

i wonder who did the study old people or young people

So I'm not forgetful, I'm full of wisdom, if only I could remember this clip to point folk to it.

Wise old people use clipmarks...and some smart whippersnappers, too.

I resemble that remark!
Well perhaps the first part