Senior Living: Mental gymnastics to keep your brain bouncing back

By David Hart, Ph.D.Contributing writer
Can memory be improved and maintained as we age or are we all destined for an insidious breakdown of the cognitive process of sensing, storing, and retrieving information?David W. Hart, Ph.D.
For those of you who believe that learning and memory can be maintained and even improved as we age, you’re onto something.As the human brain ages, it begins to undergo structural and functional decline. Our brains may not be as efficient at learning names or re