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"Your brain is in its 60s," Ryuta Kawashima announced. The disembodied head of the neuroscientist from Tohoku University in Japan wagged on the Nintendo screen and admonished: "If your brain is older than you, you should take note!"
Miffed, this 34-year-old biophysics Ph.D. candidate decided to do something about it. I would train my brain daily.
This article was originally published with the title Circuit Training.
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