Keeping your brain young
"Can exercising your brain stave off Alzheimer's disease or age-related mental decline? Quite possibly. In recent years, circumstantial evidence has been building that training the brain with stimulating activities can help compensate for the physical damage that occurs with age. This, in turn, may allow people to avoid symptoms of Alzheimer's or mild cognitive impairment far longer than others whose brains aren't so adaptable. One piece of supporting evidence is that some elderly people who die without memory loss nonetheless have brains full of the plaques and tangles thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. Their brains apparently tolerate the damage better than others'."
Read the rest at Forbes.
Read the rest at Forbes.
This really is a big deal. Forbes and The Wall Street Journal have published several articles about it. Anyone who is the least bit interested in brain fitness should read The Brain that Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge, MD. Amazing. I’m about half way through it. I’m also about halfway through The Brain Fitness Workout, developed by Dr. Michael Merzenich, one of the pioneers on the subject of brain plasticity. PBS ran a special last fall, during pledge week, about it. I think the name of the show was Brain Fitness. They’ll air a sequel this coming fall.
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