22nd February 2006, 2:45 PM
How do you know that is the specific mechanism that causes that? First of all, this does not apply to all elderly. That alone calls your conclusion into doubt. Secondly, I had read in the past that the mechanism responsible was that in those who's memory becomes faulty, simply put the neural connections begin to break down and the ability to create new connections itself breaks down.
To assume anything further is just that: assuming.
To assume anything further is just that: assuming.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)