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WHAT THIS MEANS Some memory loss is inevitable with age, but the improvements shown in the study suggest that at least some lapses can be held off, in part by protecting the brain with mental stimulation and keeping the heart healthy, which enhances circulation and keeps neurons active...
...People who subscribe to this belief fail to understand several fundamental facts about psychiatric disorders and medications. Antidepressants—that is, serotonin and serotonin-norepenephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs and SNRIs—relieve symptoms of clinical depression by balancing levels of certain chemicals in the brain. Psychiatrists believe that if a person who does not suffer from clinical depression—that is, who has healthy brain chemistry—were to take an antidepressant, he would experience any number of negative side effects while not getting any benefit from the medication...
...Simply put, these medications won’t do any good unless your brain is unhealthy in very specific ways. Moreover, the notion of “better than well” is an optimistic myth: medications for psychiatric disorders enable people to feel normal, not better than normal. Antidepressants bring people from the hell of severe depression to a sense of being able to function normally; they aren’t magic happy pills. Similarly, they don’t make normal and appropriate feelings of sadness (or anxiety or anger) go away; a person whose brain chemistry...
...ventilated, book-filled room, take your computer down to the dining hall. It can sometimes seem like a depressing, angst-filled ghost town after the HUDS workers leave and only the thesis writers and their leftovers remain, but there is nothing like being the first person in line at brain break to get the freshest day-old bagels, the first person in line to get eggs from the grille in the morning, and the first person to swipe into lunch.—Columnists Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky can be reached at aufricht@fas.harvard.edu and kaletzky@fas.harvard.edu...
...never forgets to summon the argument that she has more experience. But as the Florida State simulations show, experience doesn't always help. In fact, three decades of research into expert performance has shown that experience itself - the raw amount of time you spend pursuing any particular activity, from brain surgery to skiing - can actually hinder your ability to deliver reproducibly superior performance...