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Memory is a fragile, fickle thing. Almost every adult experiences a memory lapse occasionally. In younger people, shrugging it off or ignoring it may be the norm. As people hit their 40s, resignation that memory loss is a consequence of aging creeps into the apologies. In the 21st century, the possibility that memory lapses represent Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia has fostered a new anxiety. The specter of “Alzheimer's” lurking in everyday memory lapses tends to make a name forgotten or a set of keys misplaced all the more memorable.
Almost like the famous Catch-22, conventional wisdom about memory complaints, without objective evidence of impairment, had been that if someone had enough insight to …
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