Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife

A journalist tackles her growing forgetfulness and inability to concentrate as she seeks to understand how the brain works.

Why can't you remember where you put your keys? Or the title of the movie you saw last week?

Anyone older than forty knows that forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying. With compassion and humor, acclaimed journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin explores the factors that determine how well or poorly one's brain will age.

She takes readers alon...