Are the middle-aged years the smartest of our lives?

Are the middle-aged years the smartest of our lives? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Barbara Strauch, senior science editor at The New York Times and author of The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-aged Mind. She says while you lose your grasp on the small stuff--like remembering people's names--in the big picture, your brain may enter its most competent and productive phase yet. How could our minds grow stronger as our bodies get softer?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Do you know a middle-aged mind? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Barbara Strauch, deputy science and health editor at The New York Times and author of The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-aged Mind

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Your Call 010709 How is technology changing our brains?

How are television, the Internet, email, iPhones and video games changing our brains? On the next Your Call we'll talk with Dr. Gary Small, director of the Memory and Aging Research Center at UCLA. Many of us have gotten used to ubiquitous digital technology at work and home, but young people today have never been away from it. They average 8 and half hours a day online, working, playing and communicating and it is changing the way their brains work. How can we protect ourselves and our children from the dangers of too much tech? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Gary Small in Los Angeles
Director of the Memory & Aging Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and the Center on Aging at UCLA. He is the author of many articles and books. His latest book is iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind.

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