From The Quarterly, Winter 2012
Imagine that you are standing on a busy city street corner and you gather together the first 100 passersby who are precisely 70 years old. “In this randomly selected…
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From The Quarterly, Winter 2012
Cognitive abilities tend to decline with age. Although there is considerable variability in degree from one person to another, a large percentage of the very old…
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From The Quarterly, Summer 2011
You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to know that certain of our mental faculties decline as we age. Memory is one instance or, in many people, the ability to…
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In 2000, Foundation Distinguished Investigator Grantees, Paul Greengard, Ph.D., and Eric R. Kandel, M.D., were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their important contributions…
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