"Aging has its benefits; As we grow older, our brains retain the good memories and dismiss the bad" by Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | January 12, 2009
First of all, that condition is also known as DENIAL, and secondly, it's a LIE!!
I'm getting older and I'm finding that there is not much good back there!
Then again, why would I expect anything else from the agenda-pushing paper, huh?
In the 1973 film "The Way We Were," Barbra Streisand sings a haunting ballad about memories and aging. "What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget," the song goes.
Now, research suggests that the song was essentially right, and illustrates just how the brain manages to dismiss negative memories but retain the positive ones as we get older.
A team of researchers from Duke University and University of Alberta took two groups of volunteers - one in their mid-20s, one in their 70s - and showed them photos that were either neutral or very negative, depicting such things as mutilated bodies or sick children. Later, the participants were unexpectedly asked to recall the images. The older group had a harder time recalling the negative images than the younger group, and brain scans revealed the differences in brain activity between the two groups....
--more--"Yeah, denial is a good thing, especially if it calls on you to look at pictures such as these:
Palestinian Photo Album
In Pictures: Massacre of Gazan Children
Atrocious Images of the Zionist ” Casting Lead Massacre” - Gaza December 29 2008
Palestinian Photo Shoot
Photo gallery of Gaza horror
In Pictures: the slaughter of Gazan children
"Sleeping Dolls"
A Photograph That Will Break Your Heart
Cry For the Angels
Israel's Most Wanted
