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mental gymnastics; Can an aging brain learn new tricks.
Byline: Rebecca Johnson
I've suffered my share of envy in life, but I never thought I'd be jealous of a stranger's brain.
"This is a beautiful brain," Daniel Amen, M.D., said, peering at the image of another journalist's cerebral cortex on the computer screen in front of him. I thought it looked like a manatee suspended in formaldehyde, but according to Amen, that doughy, evenly plump surface signaled an organ blessed by good blood flow, healthy profusion of oxygen, and perfect symmetry.
"By comparison," he said more somberly, "let's look at your brain."
This was the moment for which I had traveled from New York to Newport Beach, ...
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