in the netherlands, boris conrad sits down with a deck of cards and memorizes them. he s a top ranked memory athlete. he s also a neuroscientist. we all want to have a healthy brain through all of our lives. as the field of scientific research shows us, if you don t challenge your brain, your memory, the risk to get dementia or other diseases also increases. boris works at the donders institute in the netherlands with fellow neuroscientist martin dressler. their latest study, to understand the brains of memory athletes. we were interested in what makes a memory athlete on the neurobiology level. we do know that they use certain strategies but we don t know what happens in their brains.