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Do you find yourself forgetting where you put something? Or perhaps you just can't remember the name of that person even though you see them all the time. If you want to retain your memory then you have to work at it. Your brain needs to be used in different ways to maintain your acuity; such as our suggestions to help you at it, go and read! We don’t just lose muscle over time — our brains can go through atrophy, too. More specifically, your brain's cognitive reserve — its ability to withstand neurological damage due to aging and other factors without showing visible signs of slowing or memory loss — diminishes through the years. That can make it more difficult to perform mental tasks. But just as weight workouts add lean muscle to your body and help you retain more muscle in your later years, researchers now believe that following a brain-healthy lifestyle and performing regular, targeted brain exercises can also increase your brain's cognitive reserve.

You don't have to be a savant to have savant-like abilities. In her post "Tap Into the Inner Genius You Didn't Know You Had", Dr. Chris Glibert described Acquired Savant Syndrome, a rare condition that sometimes occurs after trauma to Left Anterior Temporal Lobe (LATL). Dr Gilbert explained that a few patients with damage to the LATL suddenly develop artistic or musical talents that may exist in all of us, but are inhibited by a healthy LATL. Fortunately, its's impossible for all of us - or, at least all who are females of a certain age (more about than later) - to bring out extraordinary abilities that we never knew our brains possessed without damaging our brains, or even temporarily suppressing the LATL by overworking it with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), as Dr. Gilbert reported in her blog.