Fresh Air on "The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain"

National Public Radio recently had an interview with The New York Times' health and medical science editor, Barbara Strauch, about her latest book, The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain. In it she debunks the idea that "senior moments", when we forget the simplest things like what we came into the kitchen to do, are the onset of dementia. She says those times are reflections of our brains becoming more distracted as we age, which is normal for humans. In fact, the premise of her book is that our brains are at their peak in middle age. So getting old isn't entirely bad after all!