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Boomers, Exercise Your Brains, or Else You’ll…Uh…

May 2, 2008 /

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When David Bunnell, a magazine publisher who lives in Berkeley, Calif., went to a Fedex store to send a package a few years ago, he suddenly drew a blank as he was filling out the forms.

“I couldn’t remember my address,” said Mr. Bunnell, 60 with a measure of horror in his voice. “I knew where I lived, and I knew how to get there, but I didn’t know what the address was.”

Mr. Bunnell is among tens of millions of baby boomers who are encountering the signs, by turns amusing and disconcerting, that accompany the decline of the brain’s acuity: a good friend’s name suddenly vanishing from memory; a frantic search for eyeglasses only to find them atop the head; milk taken from the refrigerator then put away in a cupboard.

By KATIE HAFNER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03brain.html