Word: though
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...Useful, though: "It's definitely in the minds of my classmates," Niesen adds, "that we will be seeing a lot more older individuals in our practices...
Sewell's class is small--just eight women, all boomer age or older--and was clearly designed with the forgetful in mind. Though the group meets six times over six weeks, the participants all wear name tags at all the sessions. Members who forget to attend a class are free to come back in the next six-week cycle--especially helpful for absentminded folks like me who may still be trying to make up missed dental appointments originally scheduled...
...telling that the spawning ground for the neurons is the hippocampus, which is indisputably crucial to memory. Patients with hippocampal injuries lose their ability to acquire new facts, though they can still recall impressions laid down in the years before the damage occurred. Maybe, Gould speculates, the newly generated hippocampal neurons are especially agile in forming connections with one another. As in the canaries, the new cells would readily join hands to encode a new memory. Then, when they were no longer needed, they would be flushed from the system, and the engram would be transferred elsewhere for safekeeping...
That explanation fits pretty well with the old theories. More puzzling, though, is another of the study's findings: the steady migration of new neurons from the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex. Could these neurons be somehow involved in ferrying information into permanent storage--storing short-term memories for the long term...
...When her husband of 25 years asked for a divorce in 1998, Wajdenfeld hired a lawyer. But "he didn't do nothing," she says in a clipped Polish accent. So in January, she made a calculation that more and more Americans are making: she could do better representing herself. Though Wajdenfeld, a former jewelry-store owner, has no legal experience, she says she considered hers "a very clear case. I thought, 'I don't need a lawyer.' I don't trust lawyers...