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research organizations  Probing the Secrets of Sharp Memory in
Old Age   Share This:    The findings are based on examination
of the nine brains from super-aged individuals. Subjects who
volunteer for this study get a battery of memory and other tests
and agree to donate their brains for examination after death.
They are considered 'super- aged' because of their high
performance on the tests. The tests include memory exercises to
evaluate their ability to recall facts after being told a story
or their ability to remember a list of more than a dozen words
and recall those words sometime later. The super-aged
individuals recruited for study so far are all more than 80
years old, but they performed the memory tasks at the level of
50-year-olds. The scientists are recruiting more volunteers for
the study, with the goal of eventually including about 50
people.  Geula pointed out that previous studies tended to focus
on what goes wrong with the brain as peopl