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My late football coach Jack Davison referred to himself as having “old-timer” disease. It is true that as we age, we don’t hear, concentrate or remember as well. It becomes harder to multi-task and I often ask for repeats as my mind seemed somewhere else as I listened.

Nancy Dennis of Penn State says “Older brains fill in gaps of ‘remembered scenes.’” That is a problem, too. In the aftermath of a conversation, an older brain may recall a “false” memory.

Research on the eye shows a blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina, and there is a classroom exercise aimed at discovering yo...