01/22/13 - Tuesday's Topical Currents addresses our “cognitive potential,” with Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas. She says today’s “multi-tasking” culture is bad for the brain . . . and that working crosswords or Sudoku really can’t make us sharper. Age is not a predictor of brain slippage – Chapman says cognitive health declines because we let it. Book link: Make Your Brain Smarter - website link: www.makeyourbrainsmarter.com

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