Dementia is a loss of intellectual ability that affects memory, learning,attention,thinking and language skills.

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Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

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Well, I think actually, you probably could tell a story where that was true, especially if we throw in enough doses of memory loss.

我想，实际上，这也许行得通，尤其是在引入失记的条件下。

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If we make--If we solve the problem of boredom setting in with progressive memory loss and radical personality changes, maybe boredom won't set in, but it's not anything that I especially want for myself.

如果用持续失忆,和剧烈人格变化来解决无聊的问题，也许不会产生无聊，但那不是我特别想做的事。

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