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And remembering more. Yes. I have cured her fear of alzheimers, and i explained to her the very first time i saw her that her memory loss issues were minor and that we can improve her memory, and we did. Dr. Chapman, let me turn to you, because your book is called make your brain smarter. Can we really do that . Does the science tell us now that yes, we can do that . Yes, its very clear. We also are doing extensive brain imaging, and the approach we take to make people smarter is engage the frontal lobes, and really more of how do you go to synthesized thinking to engage your brain blood flow connectivity as well as white matter increases, so, weve been able to show changes in just 8 hours of getting people braintrained. 8 hours. See, that is just amazing. 8 hours you can actually demonstrate that some change has taken place. How do you know that its positive change . We see its positive change because we see increases in the area of the central executive system, but we also see cognit
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