Brain Health for lawyers

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The Com­plete Lawyer, a legal pub­li­ca­tion dis­trib­uted to bar mem­bers in sev­er­al states, just pub­lished an arti­cle on Ten Impor­tant Truths About Aging: How we age is at least par­tial­ly under our con­trol, By Elkhonon Gold­berg and Alvaro Fernandez.
We were hap­py to con­tribute to the ongo­ing debate about ethics and aging in the legal pro­fes­sion, build­ing on our pre­vi­ous post on the topic.
What are those “Ten Truths”? Well, here you are the outline:
  • Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy Indi­cates That We Can Con­trol Our Aging
  • Aging Means Life­long Devel­op­ment, Not Auto­mat­ic Decline
  • Some Skills Improve With Age
  • Some Skills Need To Be Con­tin­u­ous­ly Nur­tured And Trained
  • Not All Instances Of For­get­ting Are Of Equal Concern
  • We Are In Con­trol, To A Large Extent
  • There Are Four “Pil­lars Of Brain Health”
  • Cross-Train­ing Our Brains Builds Up Cog­ni­tive Reserve
  • Com­put­er-Based Brain Exer­cise Pro­grams Can Help
  • Embrace “Good Stress”; Elim­i­nate “Bad Stress”
  • Retire­ment Is Overrated

Here is the full arti­cle: Ten Impor­tant Truths About Aging. We hope you enjoy it. The impli­ca­tions, for peo­ple of all ages, are sim­ply astound­ing. Anoth­er relat­ed post is The way we age now.

We are look­ing for more oppor­tu­ni­ties to reach more peo­ple with these impor­tant top­ics, so let us know if you have ideas!