The Brain Science Behind Aging and Forgetting

Are younger people smarter? Are older people wiser? Living longer affects the brain, but exactly how may surprise you

Kathleen Murphy
Wise & Well
Published in
5 min readMar 7, 2024

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Solomon Shereshevsky, a Russian journalist in the 1920s, was known as “The Man Who Could Not Forget.” He could effortlessly recall long lists of numbers or nonsensical information, books of…

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Kathleen Murphy
Wise & Well

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