Well, Duh...
As a corollary to working out, people have begun joining brain gyms
to flex their mental muscles. For a monthly fee of around $15, websites
like Lumosity.com and MyBrainTrainer.com promise to enhance memory,
attention and other mental processes through a series of games and brain
teasers. Such ready-made mind exercises are an alluring route for
people who worry about their ticking clock. But there’s no need to slap
down the money right away—new research suggests the secret to preserving
mental agility may lie in simply cracking open a book.
The findings, published online today in Neurology,
suggest that reading books, writing and engaging in other similar
brain-stimulating activities slows down cognitive decline in old age,
independent of common age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
In particular, people who participated in mentally stimulating
activities over their lifetimes, both in young, middle and old age, had a
slower rate of decline in memory and other mental capacities than those
who did not.
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