Amnesia

I just read an interesting article in Svenska Dagbladet (published on the 9th of November). The article was about research results that describe how every generation remembers better than the previous one. The professor of psychology Lars-Göran Nilsson is the leader of a project where 4200 randomly chosen respondents aged 25- 80 have had their memory tested during 20 years. The aim is of course to find out the reasons for dementia and at an early stage. One of the results is that the development of the socalled episodic memory is mainly dependent on education, nutrition and how many siblings you have. So this means that if you are educating yourself, eating well and on top of that have sisters and brothers you could perhaps feel saved from the horror of dementia...Another thing is that the flow of information also makes the brain more flexible...So my future concerning a functioning memory looks great (well educated, two brothers and a sister and taking care of my diet more or less successfully, working with information every day). But it doesn't help that I have senior moments and I have to admit that CRAFT (can't remember a f**king thing) lurks behind the corner. Yesterday I didn't remember the name of someone I should know but of course when I say remember it means straight away. After some minutes I knew the name... Some kind of cognitive overload, tiredness could have been the reason...Or maybe my archiver was resting ;-). Anyway to avoid these scary moments of amnesia I'll try to concentrate on taking care of the factors mentioned above as much as possible. BTW, professor Nilsson suggests that the year for retiring could be higher as we're getting smarter and remember more and more...