Is forgetting why you walked into a room just a slip of the mind or does it herald something more sinister? It means that when the wiring of the brain starts to break down with age, or if dementia develops, the brain has ‘back-up’ networks to use instead. Our care nightmare Did you see Care, Jimmy McGovern’s new drama about dementia that aired on Sunday on BBC TV? It was desperately sad, but unsparing in its exposition of just how inhumane the process of applying for social care can be; the ludicrous bureaucracy and the endless frustrations. The experiments were largely failures, though, and you’d assume the idea of mind control would be consigned to the history books.

Source: Daily Mail December 15, 2018 01:52 UTC