On: Dementia Rate Drops Sharply, as Forecast

[Amadou]

I feel you are being disingenuous. We all have enough long-term memory to discern patterns beyond the short term and classify them as such.

[mikeash → Amadou]

Feel what you like, I don't care.

There are plenty of examples, both in nature and in the human body, of "use it or lose it" and "use it up and it's gone".